EAElizabeth Akers Allen

3 collected words

Elizabeth Akers Allen

Born 1832 AD; death year unknown

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1832 AD

Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight! Make me a child again, just for to-night!

Elizabeth Akers Allen / quote

02c. 1832 AD

Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years! I am so weary of toil and of tears,— Toil without recompense, tears all in vain! Take them, and give me my childhood again!

Elizabeth Akers Allen / quote

03c. 1832 AD

Over my slumber your loving watch keep - Rock me to sleep mother rock me to sleep.

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