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Lottie Matthews

Anne Shirley vibes🥹

LOTTIE MATTHEWS-CODED

in tears bc I'm reading poems about friendship (I'm just a girl, after all)

"Let me not follow the clamor of the world,
But walk calmly in my path.
Give me a few friends who will love me for what I am;
And keep ever burning before my vagrant steps
The kindly light of hope."

-From "A Prayer," Max Ehrmann

"I am a part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough
Gleams that untraveled world, whose margin fades
For ever and for ever when I move."

From "Ulysses," by Tennyson

"And the stately ships go on
  To their haven under the hill;
But O for the touch of a vanished hand,
  And the sound of a voice that is still!

Break, break, break,
  At the foot of the crags, O Sea!
But the tender grace of a day that is dead
  Will never come back to me."

-from "Break, Break, Break" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary."

- From "The Rainy Day," Longfellow

"I have found such joy in things that fill
My quiet days: a curtain's blowing grace,
A potted plant upon my window sill,
A rose, fresh-cut and placed within a vase;
A table cleared, a lamp beside a chair,
And books I long have loved beside me there."

From "I Have Found Such Joy"
by Grace Noll Crowell