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Babyhood Quotes
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Fie, fie, how wayward is this foolish love That, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse And presently all humbled kiss the rod! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
And thou hast stolen a jewel, Death! Shall light thy dark up like a Star. A Beacon kindling from afar Our light of love and fainting faith. (Quote by - Gerald Massey)
Lo! at the couch where infant beauty sleeps; Her silent watch the mournful mother keeps; She, while the lovely babe unconscious lies, Smiles on her slumbering child with pensive eyes. (Quote by - Thomas Campbell)
A little soul scarce fledged for earth Takes wing with heaven again for goal, Even while we hailed as fresh from birth A little soul. (Quote by - Algernon Charles Swinburne)
The morning that my baby came They found a baby swallow dead, And saw a something hard to name Fly mothlike over baby's bed. (Quote by - Ralph Hodgson)
What is the little one thinking about? Very wonderful things, no doubt; Unwritten history! Unfathomed mystery! Yet he laughs and cries, and eats and drinks, And chuckles and crows, and nods and winks, As if his head were as full of kinks And curious riddles as any sphinx! (Quote by - Josiah Gilbert Holland)
God mark thee to his grace! Thou wast the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed. An I might live to see thee married once, I have my wish. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Have you not heard the poets tell How came the dainty Baby Bell Into this world of ours? (Quote by - Thomas Bailey Aldrich)
He seemed a cherub who had lost his way And wandered hither, so his stay With us was short, and 'twas most meet, That he should be no delver in earth's clod, Nor need to pause and cleanse his feet To stand before his God: O blest word--Evermore! (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
O child! O new-born denizen Of life's great city! on thy head The glory of morn is shed, Like a celestial benison! Here at the portal thou dost stand, And with thy little hand Thou openest the mysterious gate Into the future's undiscovered land. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
There came to port last Sunday night The queerest little craft, Without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked--and laughed. It seemed so curious that she Should cross the unknown water, And moor herself within my room-- My daughter! O my daughter! (Quote by - George Washington)
God one morning, glad of heaven, Laughed--and that was you! (Quote by - William Brian Hooker)
Oh those little, those little blue shoes! Those shoes that no little feet use. Oh, the price were high That those shoes would buy, Those little blue unused shoes! (Quote by - William Cox Bennett)
Baloo, baloo, my wee, wee thing. (Quote by - Richard Gall)