Alice Cary
26 April 1820 – 12 February 1871
Birthplace: Mount Healthy, Ohio [Today: North College Hill, Ohio]
American poet
“For whatever men say in their blindness,
and in spite of the follies of youth,
there’s nothing so kingly as kindness,
and nothing so royal as truth.”
~Alice Cary, American poet
“Nobility” (1849) The Last Poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary, ed. Mary Clemmer Ames, New York: Hurd & Houghton, 1873, p. 72; online via Harvard University & Internet Archive, www.archive.org
Extended excerpt [Poem]:
“True worth is in being, not seeming, –
In doing each day that goes by
Some little good – not in the dreaming
Of great things to do by and by.
For whatever men say in their blindness,
and in spite of the follies of youth,
there’s nothing so kingly as kindness,
and nothing so royal as truth.” (p. 72)
Source links: The Last Poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary (1849) Internet Archive: https://archive.org/stream/lastpoemsalicea00clemgoog#page/n84/mode/2up
“How many lives we live in one,
And how much less than one, in all!
~Alice Cary, American poet
“Life’s Mysteries” (1868) in The Herald of Health and Journal of Physical Culture, Vol. 12, No. 5; in volume The Herald of Health and Journal of Physical Culture, “Old Series – Vols. 45, 46 & New Series – Vols. 11,12,” New York, NY: Miller, Wood & Co., 1868, p. 201, column 1; online via University of Michigan & Google Books, books.google.com
Extended excerpt [Poem – First stanza]:
“Round and round the wheel doth run,
And now doth rise, and now doth fall;
How many lives we live in one,
And how much less than one, in all!” (p. 201)
Source link: The Herald of Health and Journal of Physical Culture (1868) online via Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=EyegAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA201&dq=%22Life%27s+Mysteries%22+%2B+How+many+lives+we+live+in+one
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