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Charlotte Elliott

  • 'Christian! Seek not yet repose'; / Hear thy guardian angel say, / Thou art in the midst of foes — / 'Watch and pray.'

    • Charlotte Elliott,
    • "Wednesday Morning," Morning and Evening Hymns for a Week ()
  • I hope I shall never lose the recollection of all I heard about her illness, and of the little I myself witnessed before I looked upon the clay-cold form, and pressed my lips on the altered brow of that once bright and lovely creature! Oh! it is indeed an awful change, and a fearful termination to look to, and to prepare for. It is one thing to hear of death, and another to behold its awful effects!

    • Charlotte Elliott,
    • letter (1838), Leaves From the Unpublished Journals, Letters, and Poems of Charlotte Elliott ()
  • I feel so great an age as mine requires three things: great faith, great patience, and great peace.

    • Charlotte Elliott,
    • letter (1870), Leaves From the Unpublished Journals, Letters, and Poems of Charlotte Elliott ()
  • Is life's evening long and dreary? / Gone the treasures once possessed? / Is thy spirit faint and weary? / Does thou long to be at rest? / On this sweet promise fix thy sight: / 'At evening time it shall be light.'

    • Charlotte Elliott,
    • "Lines for the Aged," Leaves From the Unpublished Journals, Letters, and Poems of Charlotte Elliott ()
  • I saw the radiant Queen of Night / Walking in brightness through the sky ...

    • Charlotte Elliott,
    • "The Setting Moon," Leaves From the Unpublished Journals, Letters, and Poems of Charlotte Elliott ()
  • Oh, weep not for her! she has taken her flight, / From the valley of tears to the land of delight; / Oh, weep not for her! she is ransomed and blest; / Her warfare is over, her spirit at rest.

    • Charlotte Elliott,
    • "Epitaph," Leaves From the Unpublished Journals, Letters, and Poems of Charlotte Elliott ()

Charlotte Elliott, English poet, hymn writer

(1789 - 1871)

At least one of her books was published “By a lady,” with no author’s name.