Sarah Doudney

thumb|Sarah Doudney (an inscription signed by Doudney appears beneath the portrait engraving). Sarah Doudney (15 January 1841, Portsea, Hampshire – 8 December 1926, Oxford) was an English novelist and poet, best known as a children's writer and hymnwriter. Quotes The pure, the beautiful, the bright,That stirred our hearts in youth,The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love and truth,The longings after something lost, The spirit’s yearning cry,The strivings after better hopes,—These things can never die. Poem: Things that never die, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). I send thee pansies while the year is young,Yellow as sunshine, purple as the night; Flowers of remembrance, ever fondly sungBy all the chiefest of the Sons of Light. Poem: Pansies. And a proverb haunts my mindAs a spell is cast,"The mill cannot grindWith the water that is past." Poem: Lesson of the Water-Mill. But the waiting time, my brothers,Is the hardest time of all. Psalms of Life: The Hardest Time of All. External links Works by Sarah Doudney Sarah Doudney, 1841-1926 at cyberhymnal.org Category:Poets from England Category:Novelists from England Category:Children's authors Category:Hymnwriters from England Category:Women authors from England Category:Anglicans from the United Kingdom Category:1841 births Category:1926 deaths Category:People from Portsmouth Category:Victorian novelists