Mary Mapes Dodge Quotes

“But when a snowflake, brave and meek,
Lights on a rosy maiden's cheek,
It starts—"How warm and soft the day!"
"'T is summer!" and it melts away.”

Mary Mapes Dodge

Snowflakes (1894).

“Whenever a snowflake leaves the sky,
It turns and turns to say "Good-by!
Good-by, dear clouds, so cool and gray!"
Then lightly travels on its way.”

Mary Mapes Dodge

Snowflakes (1894).

“But I believe that God is overhead
And as life is to the living, so death is to the dead.”

Mary Mapes Dodge

The Two Mysteries (1904).

“Life is a mystery as deep as ever death can be;
Yet oh, how dear it is to us, this life we live and see!”

Mary Mapes Dodge

The Two Mysteries (1904).

“For ever and ever, my darling, yes—
Goodness and love are undying;
Only the troubles and cares of earth
Are winged from the first for flying.
Our way we plough
In the furrow "now;"
But after the tilling and growing the sheaf;
Soil for the root, but the sun for the leaf—
And God keepeth watch forever.”

Mary Mapes Dodge

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 287.