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)
How lovely he appears! his little cheeks In their pure incarnation, vying with The rose leaves strewn beneath them. And his lips, too, How beautifully parted! No; you shall not Kiss him; at least not now; he will wake soon-- His hour of midday rest is nearly over. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
Beat upon mine, little heart! beat, beat! Beat upon mine! you are mine, my sweet! All mine from your pretty blue eyes to your feet, My sweet! (Quote by - Lord Alfred Tennyson)
Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber, Holy angels guard thy bed! Heavenly blessings without number Gently falling on thy head. (Quote by - Isaac Watts)
How did they all just come to be you? God though about me and so I grew. (Quote by - George MacDonald)
Suck, baby! suck! mother's love grows by giving: Drain the sweet founts that only thrive by wasting! Black manhood comes when riotous guilty living Hands thee the cup that shall be death in tasting. (Quote by - Charles Lamb)
As living jewels dropped unstained from heaven. (Quote by - Robert Pollok)
Her beads while she numbered, The baby still slumbered, And smile in her face, as she bended her knee; Oh! bless'd be that warning, My child, thy sleep adorning, For I know that the angels are whispering with thee. (Quote by - Samuel Lover)
A sweet, new blossom of Humanity, Fresh fallen from God's own home to flower on earth. (Quote by - Gerald Massey)
Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. (Quote by - Bible)
He is so little to be so large! Why, a train of cars, or a whale-back barge Couldn't carry the freight Of the monstrous weight Of all of his qualities, good and great. And tho' one view is as good as another Don't take my word for it. Ask his mother! (Quote by - Edmund Vance Cooke)
Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm is blest. (Quote by - John Keble)
When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery. (Quote by - Helen Hunt Jackson (Helen Hunt))
Baby smiled, mother wailed, Earthward while the sweetling sailed; Mother smiled, baby wailed, When to earth came Viola. (Quote by - Francis Thompson)
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. (Quote by - Carl Sandburg)
The hair she means to have is gold, Her eyes are blue, she's twelve weeks old, Plump are her fists and pinky. She fluttered down in lucky hour From some blue deep in yon sky bower-- I call her "Little Dinky." (Quote by - Frederick Locker-Lampson)
The hand that rocks the cradle--but there is no such hand. It is bad to rock the baby, they would have us understand; So the cradle's but a relic of the former foolish days, When mothers reared their children in unscientific ways; When they jounced them and they bounced them, those poor dwarfs of long ago-- The Washingtons and Jeffersons, you know. (Quote by - Edmund Vance Cooke)
A baby was sleeping, Its mother was weeping. (Quote by - Samuel Lover)
Where did you come from, baby dear? Out of the Everywhere into here. (Quote by - George MacDonald)
He smiles, and sleeps!--sleep on And smile, thou little, young inheritor Of a world scarce less young: sleep on and smile! Thine are the hours and days when both are cheering And innocent! (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
Look! how he laughs and stretches out his arms, And opens wide his blue eyes upon thine, To hail his father; while his little form Flutters as winged with joy. Talk not of pain! The childless cherubs well might envy thee The pleasures of a parent. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
Wee Willie Winkie rins through the toun, Up stairs and doun stairs in his nicht-goun, Tirlin' at the window, cryin' at the lock, "Are the weans in their bed? for it's now ten o'clock." (Quote by - William Miller)
Rock-bye-baby on the tree top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock. When the bough bends the cradle will fall, Down comes the baby, cradle and all. (Quote by - Bible)
A tight little bundle of wailing and flannel, Perplex'd with the newly found fardel of life. (Quote by - Frederick Locker-Lampson)
A daughter, and a goodly babe, Lusty and like to live. The queen receives Much comfort in't, says, 'My poor prisoner, I am innocent as you.' (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles. (Quote by - William Blake)
But what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry. (Quote by - Lord Alfred Tennyson)
When you fold your hands, Baby Louise! Your hands like a fairy's, so tiny and fair, With a pretty, innocent, saintlike air, Are you trying to think of some angel-taught prayer You learned above, Baby Louise. (Quote by - Margaret Eytinge)
Sweetest li'l' feller, everybody knows; Dunno what do call him, but he's mighty lak' a rose; Lookin' at his mammy wid eyes so shiny blue Mek' you think that Heav'n is comin' lost ter you. (Quote by - Frank Lebby Stanton)
