Elizabeth Chase Allen Quotes

Carve not upon a stone when I am dead, The praises which remorseful mourners give; To women's graves - a tardy recompense, But speak them while I live.

Elizabeth Chase Allen

• Dead
• Graves
• Praises
• Recompense

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I count no more my wasted tears; They left no echo of their fall; I mourn no more my lonesome years; This blessed hour atones for all. I fear not all that Time or Fate May bring to burden heart or brow,- Strong in the love that came so late, Our souls shall keep it always now!

  

  Elizabeth Chase Allen
  • Heart
  • Blessed
  • Tears

• Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night!

  

  Elizabeth Chase Allen
  • Child
  • Flight
  • Backward

• Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!I am so weary of toil and of tears,-Toil without recompense, tears all in vain!Take them, and give me my childhood again!

  

  Elizabeth Chase Allen
  • Childhood
  • Tears
  • Vain

• We do not die with those we mourn.

  

  Elizabeth Chase Allen
  • Die
  • Mourn

• Unremembered and afar I watched as I watched a star, Through darkness struggling into view And I loved you better than you knew.

  

  Elizabeth Chase Allen
  • Star
  • Darkness
  • View

• Carve not upon a stone when I am dead, The praises which remorseful mourners give; To women's graves - a tardy recompense, But speak them while I live.

  

  Elizabeth Chase Allen
  • Dead
  • Graves
  • Praises