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Lucy Larcom
American
Poet
Born:
Mar 5
,
1824
Died:
Apr 17
,
1893
Every
God
Love
Me
Nature
World
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Emily Dickinson
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What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love of tattling? Which is worse, this habit, or keeping one's self so absorbed intellectually as to forget the sufferings and cares of others, to lose sympathy through having too much to think about?
Lucy Larcom
Love
Gossip
Too Much
Lose
Think
Too
Sympathy
Cares
Others
Worse
Neighbor
About
Having
Habit
Through
Self
Absorb
Idle
Intellectually
Curiosity
Forget
Which
Interest
Meaning
Meaning Of
Much
Originate
Sufferings
Keeping
Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.
Lucy Larcom
Best
Good
Me
Sunshine
Plant
Hard Things
Difficult
Starts
Pleasant
Pleasant Things
Say
Like
Know
Most
Does
Up
Did
Whether
Which
Hard
Helped
Showers
Grow
Things
There is something in the place where we were born that holds us always by the heart-strings.
Lucy Larcom
Born
Something
Always
Were
Where
Holds
Place
Us
No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment.
Lucy Larcom
Nature
Some
Charm
More
Scenery
No-One
Noble
Feel
Employment
Close
Escape
Laborer
Than
Refreshment
From the first opening of our eyes, it is the light that attracts us. We clutch aimlessly with our baby fingers at the gossamer-motes in the sunbeam, and we die reaching out after an ineffable blending of earthly and heavenly beauty which we shall never fully comprehend.
Lucy Larcom
Eyes
Light
First
Beauty
Baby
Our
Earthly
Sunbeam
Out
Comprehend
Fingers
Shall
Never
Blending
Opening
Reaching
Attracts
Ineffable
Die
Heavenly
After
Which
Clutch
Us
Fully
A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.
Lucy Larcom
Friendship
Impossible
Lose
Fathom
Ourself
Would
Something
Mystery
He
Him
Because
Always
Dearest
Were
Friend
Chief
Which
Us
Zest
Beloved
A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.
Lucy Larcom
History
Water
Drop
Own
Universe
Out
Would
Could
Write
Explain
Us
The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.
Lucy Larcom
Character
Money
Destroys
Covetousness
Curse
Manhood
I am willing to make any part of my life public, if it will help others.
Lucy Larcom
Life
Will
My Life
Help Others
Others
Willing
Part
Make
Am
Any
Public
Help
We were not meant to mask ourselves before our fellow-beings, but to be, through our human forms, true and clear utterances of the spirit within. Since God gave us these bodies, they must have been given us as guides to Him and revealers of Him.
Lucy Larcom
God
Mask
Before
Gave
Our
Guides
Ourselves
Must
Spirit
Given
Through
Clear
True
Since
Him
Within
Were
Been
Human
Forms
Us
Bodies
Meant
Every phase of our life belongs to us. The moon does not, except in appearance, lose her first thin, luminous curve, nor her silvery crescent, in rounding to her full. The woman is still both child and girl, in the completeness of womanly character.
Lucy Larcom
Life
Character
Woman
Moon
Girl
First
Lose
Every
Our
Completeness
Both
Except
Does
Still
Nor
Womanly
Child
Curve
Us
Full
Appearance
Rounding
Luminous
Thin
Her
Phase
Belongs
Whatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simplicity that is in Christ.
Lucy Larcom
Science
World
Simplicity
Christ
Whatever
Philosophy
Outgrow
Never
May
Mankind
Need
Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.
Lucy Larcom
Work
Enthusiasm
Otherwise
Aim
Neither
He
Puts
Faithfulness
His
Itself
Labor
Privilege
Laborer
Which
Elevating
Ennoble
A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature.
Lucy Larcom
Nature
Man
Never
He
Make
Himself
May
One mistake with beginners in writing is, that they think it important to spin out something long. It is a great deal better not to write more than a page or two, unless you have something to say, and can write it correctly.
Lucy Larcom
Great
You
Mistake
Writing
Better
Great Deal
Long
Important
Think
Unless
Say
Correctly
Out
Spin
Something
More
Write
Deal
Beginners
Than
Page
Two
A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort of a ventilator from the interior.
Lucy Larcom
Alone
Interior
Nurturing
Thought
Kind
Some
Morbid
Foolish
Writer
Self
Journal
Self-Consciousness
Well
Sort
Always
Am
Subjective
Much
Consciousness
God be thanked for the thinkers of good and noble thoughts! It wakes up all the best in ourselves, to come into close contact with others greater and better in every way than we are.
Lucy Larcom
God
Best
Good
Thoughts
Better
Every
Others
Way
Ourselves
Contact
Noble
Come
Greater
Wakes
Up
Close
Than
Thinkers
When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper, I thought I should be happy! Or if I could at last succeed in drawing the outline of winter-stripped boughs as I saw them against the sky, it seemed to me that I should be willing to spend years in trying.
Lucy Larcom
Time
Me
Be Happy
Happy
Sky
Thought
Rose
Spend
Saw
Paper
Drawing
Willing
Some
Seemed
Outline
Only
Could
Wished
Make
Were
Years
Heard
Bloom
Trying
Artists
Against
Succeed
Them
If I Could
Should
Last
A complete autobiography would indeed be a picture of the outer and inner universe photographed upon one little life's consciousness. For does not the whole world, seen and unseen, go to the making up of every human being?
Lucy Larcom
Life
Human Being
World
Seen
Picture
Every
Universe
Complete
Indeed
Photographed
Would
Outer
Unseen
Does
Making
Making Up
Go
Up
Human
Autobiography
Being
Little
Whole
Consciousness
Inner
The first real unhappiness I remember to have felt was when some one told me, one day, that I did not love God. I insisted, almost tearfully, that I did; but I was told that if I did truly love Him I should always be good. I knew I was not that, and the feeling of sudden orphanage came over me like a bewildering cloud.
Lucy Larcom
Love
God
Good
Day
Me
Remember
First
Feeling
Cloud
One Day
Some
Insisted
Knew
Almost
Over
Bewildering
Like
Him
Felt
Always
Real
Came
Truly
Did
Unhappiness
Should
Sudden
Orphanage
Let us not depreciate Earth. There is no atom in it but is alive and astir in the all-penetrating splendor of God. From the infinitesimal to the infinite, everything is striving to express the thought of His Presence with which it overflows.
Lucy Larcom
God
Thought
Everything
Earth
Alive
Striving
Atom
Splendor
His
Infinite
Which
Depreciate
Us
Express
Let Us
Presence
Few parents are aware of the difficulties that beset the minds of the little philosophers and theologians who sit upon their knees or play at their feet; and many a parent could not comprehend the disturbance, if he were aware of it.
Lucy Larcom
Parents
Sit
Few
Difficulties
Philosophers
Minds
Disturbance
Comprehend
Parent
Could
He
Knees
Feet
Were
Little
Theologians
Who
Many
Aware
Play
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