Felicia Hemans Art Quotations

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, Suffering, yet hoping all things.

Alas! for love, if thou art all, And nought beyond, O earth.

There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found?

There is in all this cold and hollow world, No fount of deep, strong,deathless love ;save that within a mother's heart