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roxannriskin: "No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been." Adelaide Anne Procter

alltimerobin: My latest audiobook is live! This one completes my recordings of Charles Dickens' "The Haunted House" anthology - this chapter is a poem by Adelaide Anne Procter

Lamdarling: No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been. — Adelaide Anne Procter, poet Happy New Year 2023.

StardustMelody5: "True or False" by Adelaide Anne Procter (read by Tom O'Bedlam)

DickensFellowHQ: BOTD - 30/10/1825 - Adelaide Anne Procter, the poet who contributed about a sixth of the total number of poems CD published in HW. CD wrote the introduction to her posthumously published collection of poems 'Legends & Lyrics'.

ivressesdhier: Adelaide Anne Procter (1825-1864) - legends & lyrics - 1858 Before I trust my Fate to thee, Or place my hand in thine, Before I let thy Future give Colour and form to mine, Before I peril all for thee, question thy soul tonight for me.

LoveQuoteOfThe2: (Adelaide Anne Procter Quotes) has been published on Love Quote Of The Day -

DavidCranmerUn1: music ever made. "The Lost Chord" is a song composed by Arthur Sullivan in 1877 at the bedside of his brother Fred during Fred's last illness. The manuscript is dated 13 January 1877; Fred Sullivan died five days later. The lyric was written as a poem by Adelaide Anne Procter

cornett: "No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been." — Adelaide Anne Procter

RedRose2702: "True or False" by Adelaide Anne Procter (read by Tom O'Bedlam)

RandomQ85433955: No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been. ~ Adelaide Anne Procter (The Ghost in the Picture Room)

f0xy_roxy: No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been. -Adelaide Anne Procter

potenspuella: Emma Gaggiotti Richards, "Adelaide Anne Procter" (writer & philanthropist:

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LillybrookCS: We always may be what we might have been. -Adelaide Anne Procter

plastic_bio: Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, And my fingers wandered idly Over the noisy keys. I do not know what I was playing, Or what I was dreaming then; But I struck one chord of music, Like the sound of a great Amen. - Adelaide Anne Procter

drglennsullivan: No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been. — Adelaide Anne Procter (1859)

SejanKh03845627: Dreams grow holy put in action. Adelaide Anne Procter HBD BB KING PRATIK

GregoryIrish60: “Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night.” - Adelaide Anne Procter ❤️

_Kyrollos_: "Be strong to hope, O Heart! Though day is bright, The stars can only shine In the dark night. Be strong, O Heart of mine, Look towards the light!" - Adelaide Anne Procter

apgInSville: " Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain. " - Adelaide Anne Procter

IleRoku: Today is the birthday of Adelaide Anne Procter (born in 1825 in London, died 2 Feb 1864) - English poet and songwriter. More on

choisk03: Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain. -Adelaide Anne Procter*

DickensFellowHQ: BOTD-30/10/1825-Adelaide Anne Procter. CD published her poems in HW, ATYR and The Seven Poor Travellers and wrote the Introduction to a posthumously published collection of her verse - 'Legends and Lyrics' - recalling that "Her love of poetry was conspicuous at so early an age."

plastic_bio: Be strong to love, O Heart!Love knows not wrong;Didst thou love — creatures even,Life were not long;Didst thou love God in heaven,Thou wouldst be strong! - Adelaide Anne Procter

TiffanyJThorpe: “No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been.” -Adelaide Anne Procter

EBMgoneWILD: "It is never too late to be what you might have been." -Apocryphal but often attributed to George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) Possibly converted from "We always may be what we might have been." -Adelaide Anne Procter

CondolenceTweet: See how time makes all grief decay. – Adelaide Anne Procter

awgonnerman: "We always may be what we might have been." — Adelaide Anne Procter

KeepUpWithMika: No star is ever lost we once have seen. We always may be what we might have been. ~Adelaide Anne Procter

Liang17842387: Fair hope is dead, and light Is quench’d in night. What sound can break the silence of despair? O doubting heart! Thy sky is overcast, Yet stars shall rise at last, Brighter for darkness past, And angels’ silver voices stir the air. Adelaide Anne Procter

whitejeanlady: No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been. -Adelaide Anne Procter, 1859 “The Ghost in the Picture Room”

HistorySapphic: 1858, UK English poet Adelaide Anne Procter (33) published her first volume of poetry and dedicated it to her lover Matilda Hays (38). In the volume, she wrote a poem titled "To M.M.H." (later named 'In Retrospect') in which Procter expressed love for Hays.

almanacpodcast: The year was 1864. Today, we will remember Adelaide Anne Procter, one of the most famous Victorian poets who was a devout Catholic and advocate for the poor and distressed. The reading is from Procter, "The Shadows of the Evening Hours."

somequotesbot: "A little longer yet — a little longer,Shall violets bloom for thee, and sweet birds sing;And the lime branches where soft winds are blowing,Shall murmur the sweet promise of the Spring!" - Adelaide Anne Procter

TheHanoverPress: We're curating the final floral poems for The Hanover Press Language Of Flowers. There are some real gems that will be heading to the printers soon: some joyous, some loving, some reflective, some mournful - like this from Queen Victoria's favourite poet Adelaide Anne Procter.

HaleKarateClub: "We always may be what we might have been" - Adelaide Anne Procter

AscensionArcana: I wept that all must die — "Yet Love," I cried, "doth live, and conquer death —" And Time passed by, And breathed on Love, and killed it with his breath Ere Death was nigh. — Adelaide Anne Procter, "The Triumph of Time"

AscensionArcana: "Rising Sun (Rise for Me)"

QuoteResearch: No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been. Adelaide Anne Procter, 1859, The Ghost in the Picture Room

HistorySapphic: 1858, The UK Matilda Hays left Harriet Hosmer for Adelaide Anne Procter. Critics have called Procter's relationship with Hays "emotionally intense." Procter's first volume of poetry was dedicated to Hays, she wrote a poem titled "To M.M.H." in which she expresses love for Hays.

_Grant: "No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been." (Adelaide Anne Procter. 1825 - 1864)

MarcHammoud: Dreams grow holy put in action. Adelaide Anne Procter...

MohSilas: Here’s the remedy cooked boys and girls, straight from a 1859 special Christmas issue of “All the Year Round” edited by Charles Dickens. A poem titled “ The Ghost in the Picture Room” written by Adelaide Anne Procter.

somequotesbot: "Rejoice, oh! grieving heart,The hours fly past;With each some sorrow dies,With each some shadow flies,Until at lastThe red dawn in the eastBids weary night depart,And pain is past." - Adelaide Anne Procter

DickensFellowHQ: Born OTD - 30/10/1825 - Adelaide Anne Procter - poet whose work was published in HW and ATYR including 'The Seven Poor Travellers' and 'The Haunted House'. CD wrote the introduction to her posthumously published collection of poems 'Legends & Lyrics' (1866).

DaisyLA14: "I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road." - Adelaide Anne Procter IVANA OnAskANGELICA2

DaisyLA14: "Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light." - Adelaide Anne Procter IVANA OnAskANGELICA2

souzouzone: No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been. -- Adelaide Anne Procter

Faust89823700: Adelaide Anne Procter - A Woman’s Question Couldst thou withdraw thy hand one day And answer to my claim, That Fate, and that to-day’s mistake— Not thou—had been to blame? Some soothe their conscience thus; but thou wilt surely warn and save me now.

mortydazzler: this poem is "envy" by adelaide anne procter if anyone cared, i think i cropped that out by accident

somequotesbot: "It quieted pain and sorrow,Like love overcoming strife;It seemed the harmonious echoFrom our discordant life." - Adelaide Anne Procter

lenileanne: "Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans." —Allen Saunders "No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been." —Adelaide Anne Procter

statestreettv: “Kind hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one Have limits to its mercy; God has none.” - Adelaide Anne Procter

ubiquitymme: "We always may be what we might have been." -Adelaide Anne Procter, poet

sapphosfriend: day 36 : matilda hays (1820-1897) english writer and journalist; she helped translate george sands works and co-founded the english woman's journal lovers include english actress charlotte cushman (2), poet adelaide anne procter and women's rights promoter theodosia blacker

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AliaaALRashdan: " IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO BE WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE BEEN " Adelaide Anne Procter

somequotesbot: "A little longer yet — a little longer,Shall violets bloom for thee, and sweet birds sing;And the lime branches where soft winds are blowing,Shall murmur the sweet promise of the Spring!" - Adelaide Anne Procter

BuffyAntiqua: For the third week in a row, Adelaide Anne Procter is our featured poet. She gives us another allegorical poem, this time about a knight who fights for Truth against Ignorance, Prejudice, Custom, Opinion. Then he dies happy.

BuffyAntiqua: Adelaide Anne Procter, after her war poem last week, returns with another poem called treasures that is heavily allegorized and a bit ambiguous whether it is offering comfort to folks who are about to die / lose others.

somequotesbot: "I do not ask that flowers should always springBeneath my feetI know too well the poison and the stingOf things too sweet." - Adelaide Anne Procter

McelreaTerry: "We always may be what we might have been." Adelaide Anne Procter

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amaraanthos: "Does there within my dimmest dreams A possible future shine, Wherein thy life could henceforth breathe, Untouched, unshared by mine? If so, at any point or cost, O, tell me before all is lost." A woman's question - Adelaide Anne Procter.

egtrejos: It flooded the crimson twilight Like the close of an angel's psalm And it lay on my fevered spirit With a touch of infinite calm It quieted pain and sorrow Like love overcoming strife; It seemed the harmonious echo From our discordant life" - Adelaide Anne Procter, 1858

ArsEstHabitus: No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been. — Adelaide Anne Procter

stallings_jody: Monday Message: "It is never too late to be what you might have been." --Adelaide Anne Procter

gobalax: House to Let | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Adelaide Anne Procter, Charles Dickens | Audiobook | 1/3

gobalax: House to Let | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Adelaide Anne Procter, Charles Dickens | Audiobook | 3/3

gobalax: House to Let | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Adelaide Anne Procter, Charles Dickens | English | 2/3

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wandaology: ...we always may be what we might have been - Adelaide Anne Procter (October 30, 1825 – February 2, 1864)

todayquotes: "The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving." Adelaide Anne Procter, wb 194 today

somequotesbot: "The way is long and dreary,The path is bleak and bare;Our feet are worn and weary,But we will not despair;More weary was Thy burden,More desolate Thy ways,O Lamb of God, who takestThe sin of the world away,Have mercy upon us." - Adelaide Anne Procter

propertian: thoughts on heart as luxury, decorative object, tool of negotiation (au dieu pauvre, renée vivien / come all ye fair and tender ladies, american folk song / a love token, adelaide anne procter)

AliceSchultz67: We ran; my feet were all bleeding, But he won the race. -- "Envy," Adelaide Anne Procter

LandmarkForum: No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been. - Adelaide Anne Procter

PoetryAlive: “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” ~ Adelaide Anne Procter

DamianBurrell3: Joy is like restless day: but peace divine Like quiet night. Adelaide Anne Procter

twiLIEght378: Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light. -Adelaide Anne Procter ANGELIE HanggangHuLie

frmattfish: "The Sacred Heart", by Adelaide Anne Procter.

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josefvmartins: It is never too late to be what you have always wanted to be. Adelaide Anne Procter Wednesday 12 of June from 2019. (15:30:00), my usual time ⌚ time to drink my afternoon coffee☕.

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