Quotes by : Harriet Prescott Spofford

A full moon is poison to some; they shut it out at every crevice, and do not suffer a ray to cross them;....

I'm not good, of course; I wouldn't give a fig to be good. So it's not vanity. It's on a far grander....

Why, observe the thing; turn it over; hold it up to the window; count the beads, long, oval, like some....

I endured all our hardships as if they had been luxuries: I made light of scurvy, banqueted off train-oil,....