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Eleanor Farjeon

  • “The night will slip away / Like sorrow or a tune.”

    • Eleanor Farjeon,
    • "The Night Will Never Stay," Gypsy and Ginger ()

  • “They who go in terror, friend, / Lose the lives they never spend.”

    • Eleanor Farjeon,
    • "There Be Those," Songs for Music and Lyrical Poems ()

  • “It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see.”

  • “Ecstasy cannot be constant, or it would kill.”

  • “It seems to me there are no rules, only instances; but perhaps that is because I learned no rules, and am only an instance myself.”

  • “Alas! why were we born to woe and bliss / If life had no more need of us than this?”

  • “The folks who their potatoes buy / From sacks before they sup, / Miss half of the potato's joy / And that's to dig it up.”

    • Eleanor Farjeon,
    • "Vegetables," Poems for Children ()

  • “Once Upon a Time, / Once Upon a Time! / Everything that happened, happened / Once Upon a Time!”

    • Eleanor Farjeon,
    • "O Is for Once Upon a Time," The Children's Bells ()

  • “Cats sleep / Anywhere, / Any table, / Any chair, / Top of piano, / Window-ledge, / In the middle, / On the edge ...”

    • Eleanor Farjeon,
    • "Cats," The Children's Bells ()

  • “Morning has broken / Like the first morning, / Blackbird has spoken / Like the first bird.”

    • Eleanor Farjeon,
    • "A Morning Song (For the First Day of Spring)," The Children's Bells ()

  • “Mine is the sunlight! / Mine is the morning ...”

    • Eleanor Farjeon,
    • "A Morning Song (For the First Day of Spring)," The Children's Bells ()

  • “Raise with elation, / Praise every morning / Spring's re-creation / Of the First Day!”

    • Eleanor Farjeon,
    • "A Morning Song (For the First Day of Spring)," The Children's Bells ()

  • “Upon an Easter Morning, / So early in the day, / The bird raised up his whistle / To tune the night away ...”

    • Eleanor Farjeon,
    • "Upon an Easter Morning," The Children's Bells ()

  • “Upon an Easter Morning, / So early in the day, / The organ in the chancel / Sang both grand and gay ...”

    • Eleanor Farjeon,
    • "Upon an Easter Morning," The Children's Bells ()

  • “The train stands still / And the world runs by. / Yonder runs a tree / And a cloud in the sky.”

    • Eleanor Farjeon,
    • "The Child in the Train," The Children's Bells ()

  • “The forest's afire! / The forest's afire! / The maple is burning, / The sycamore's turning / The beech is alight!”

    • Eleanor Farjeon,
    • "October's Song," The Children's Bells ()

  • “Here's November, / The year's sad daughter ...”

    • Eleanor Farjeon,
    • "Enter November," The Children's Bells ()

  • “I restore the primal line, / Stark and sturdy, frail and fine, / Of the Dryads in the sun.”

    • Eleanor Farjeon,
    • "November's Song," The Children's Bells ()

  • “We do not lose our friends when they die, we only lose sight of them ...”

  • “The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.”

    • Eleanor Farjeon

  • “Moon-Come-Out / And Sun-Go-In, / Here's a soft blanket / To cuddle your chin.”

    • Eleanor Farjeon

Eleanor Farjeon, English poet, children's writer

(1881 - 1965)