Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

Gender: 
Female
  • We have been friends together,
    In sunshine and in shade;
    Since first beneath the chestnut-trees
    In infancy we played.
    But coldness dwells within thy heart,
    A cloud is on thy brow;
    We have been friends together—
    Shall a light word part us now?

    We...

  • Love not, love not! ye hapless sons of clay!
    Hope’s gayest wreaths are made of earthly flowers—
    Things that are made to fade and fall away
    Ere they have blossom’d for a few short hours.
    Love not!

    Love not! the thing ye love may change:
    The rosy lip may...