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List of Helen Hunt Jackson Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 42 inspiring quotes by Helen Hunt Jackson.

About Helen Hunt Jackson

  • Born: October 18, 1830
  • Died: August 12, 1885
  • Occupation: Poet
    • Who longest wait of all surely wins.
    Winning Waiting
    O month when they who love must love and wed.
    Wedding Months May
    Ah, march! we know thou art kind-hearted, spite of ugly looks and threats, and, out of sight, art nursing april's violets!
    Art Nursing Sight
    O bees, sweet bees!" i said; "that nearest field is shining white with fragrant immortelles fly swiftly there and drain those honey wells.
    Sweet White Shining
    O may, sweet-voice one, going thus before, forever june may pour her warm red wine of life and passions,--sweeter days are thine!
    Sweet Passion Wine
    No days such honored days as these! while yet fair aphrodite reigned, men seeking wide for some fair thing which should forever bide on earth, her beauteous memory to set in fitting frame that no age could forget, her name in lovely april's name did hide, and leave it there, eternally allied to all the fairest flowers spring did beget.
    Memories Spring Flower
    O winter! frozen pulse and heart of fire, what loss is theirs who from thy kingdom turn dismayed, and think thy snow a sculptured urn of death! far sooner in midsummer tire the streams than under ice. june could not hire her roses to forego the strength they learn in sleeping on thy breast.
    Heart Sleep Loss
    The wild mustard in southern california is like that spoken of in the new testament. . . . its gold is as distinct a value to the eye as the nugget gold is in the pocket.
    Eye California Southern
    O proudly name their names who bravely sail| to seek brave lost in arctic snows and seas!
    Sea Names Snow
    The goldenrod is yellow, the corn is turning brown, the trees in apple orchards with fruit are bending down.
    Yellow Apples Bending Down
    The new is older than the old; and newest friend is oldest friend in this: that, waiting him, we longest grieved to miss one thing we sought.
    Friends Waiting Missing
    Most men call fretting a minor fault, a foible, and not a vice. there is no vice except drunkenness which can so utterly destroy the peace, the happiness of a hoe.
    Men Hoe Vices
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