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Adelaide Anne Procter
English poet, songwriter and philanthropist (1825-1864)
Adelaide Anne Procterwas an English poet and philanthropist.
Her literary career began when she was a teenager, her poems appearing in Charles Dickens’s periodicals Household Words and All the Year Round, and later in feminist journals.
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About the Adelaide Anne Procter
Adelaide Anne Procterwas an English poet and philanthropist.
Her literary career began when she was a teenager, her poems appearing in Charles Dickens’s periodicals Household Words and All the Year Round, and later in feminist journals. Her charity work and her conversion to Roman Catholicism influenced her poetry, which deals with such subjects as homelessness, poverty, and fallen women, among whom she performed philanthropic work. Procter was the favourite poet of Queen Victoria. Coventry Patmore called her the most popular poet of the day, after Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Few 20th-century critics have discussed her work because of Procter’s religious beliefs, but her poetry is beginning to be re-evaluated as showing technical skill.
Procter never married. Her health suffered, possibly due to overwork, and she died of tuberculosis at the age of 38.
7 Quotes by Adelaide Anne Procter
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Dreams grow holy put in action.
Adelaide Anne ProcterEnglish poet, songwriter and philanthropist (1825-1864)
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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 ProcterEnglish poet, songwriter and philanthropist (1825-1864)
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No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.
Adelaide Anne ProcterEnglish poet, songwriter and philanthropist (1825-1864)
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Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.
Adelaide Anne ProcterEnglish poet, songwriter and philanthropist (1825-1864)
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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 ProcterEnglish poet, songwriter and philanthropist (1825-1864)
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I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.
Adelaide Anne ProcterEnglish poet, songwriter and philanthropist (1825-1864)
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We always may be what we might have been.
Adelaide Anne ProcterEnglish poet, songwriter and philanthropist (1825-1864)