Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and Journals |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Anna asked baby beautiful began birthday blessed Boston busy called cheer child Christmas comfort Concord dear delight DINAN Dodge Eight Cousins Emerson enjoyed fancy Father feel felt flowers friends Fruitlands funny gave girls give glad Goethe happy happy day hard head heart hope Hospital Sketches Jo's Boys journal keep lady laugh lessons letters Little Women lived look Louisa LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Louisburg Square Lulu Margaret Fuller Marmee May's Miss Alcott month Moods Mother never nice night nurse Orchard House picture Plato play pleasant poem poor pretty queer quiet rest ROBERTS BROTHERS round says seemed sent sewing sister soul story sweet tale talk tell things thought tired told took Vevay walk week winter wish woman write wrote young
Popular passages
Page 404 - Amid the Muses, left thee deaf and dumb, Amid the gladiators, halt and numb.' As the bird trims her to the gale, I trim myself to the storm of time, I man the rudder, reef the sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime: 'Lowly faithful, banish fear, Right onward drive unharmed; The port, well worth the cruise, is near, And every wave is charmed.
Page 403 - TERMINUS. IT is time to be old, To take in sail : — The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said : ' No more ! No farther shoot Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root. Fancy departs : no more invent ; Contract thy firmament To compass of a tent.
Page 383 - I am not eager, bold, Nor strong, — all that is past ; I am ready not to do At last, at last. My half-day's work is done, And this is all my part, — I give a patient God, My patient heart; And grasp His banner still, Though all its blue be dim ; These stripes, no less than stars, Lead after Him.
Page 315 - My definition is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.
Page 305 - Tranquillity," and the name suited her excellently ; for she seemed to live in a happy world of her own, only venturing out to meet the few whom she trusted and loved. Amy, though the youngest, was a most important person, in her own opinion at least. A regular...
Page 136 - Neath which her darling lieth hid Will write his name in violets. " To him no vain regrets belong, Whose soul, that finer instrument. Gave to the world no poor lament, But wood-notes ever sweet and strong. O lonely friend! he still will be A potent presence, though unseen,— Steadfast, sagacious, and serene: Seek not for him, — he is with thee.
Page 403 - No more ! No farther shoot Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root. Fancy departs : no more invent ; Contract thy firmament To compass of a tent. There 's not enough for this and that, Make thy option which of two ; Economize the failing river, Not the less revere the Giver, Leave the many and hold the few. Timely wise accept the terms, Soften the fall with wary foot ; A little while Still plan and smile, And, — fault of novel germs, — Mature the unfallen fruit.
Page 136 - THOREAU'S FLUTE. /• WE sighing said, " Our Pan is dead ; His pipe hangs mute beside the river; Around it wistful sunbeams quiver, But Music's airy voice is fled. Spring mourns as for untimely frost; The bluebird chants a requiem; The willow-blossom waits for him ; — The Genius of the wood is lost.
Page 201 - A little success is so inspiring that I now find my "Marches" sober, nice people, and as I can launch into the future, my fancy has more play. Girls write to ask who the little women marry, as if that was the only end and aim of a woman's life. I won't marry Jo to Laurie to please any one.
Page 38 - It was Father's and my birthday. We had some nice presents. We played in the snow before school. Mother read "Rosamond" when we sewed. Father asked us in the eve what fault troubled us most. I said my bad temper. I told mother I liked to have her write in my book. She said she would put in more, and she wrote this to help me: — DEAR LOUY, — Your handwriting improves very fast.