Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Elizabeth F. Ellet, fully Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet
American Writer, Historian and Poet
"The pang that wrings the heart to-day, time’s touch will heal to-morrow."
"Then grieve not that nought mortal Endures through passing years-- Did life one changeless tenor keep, 'T were cause indeed for tears. And fill we, ere our parting, A mantling pledge to sorrow; The pang that wrings the heart to-day, Time's touch will heal to-morrow."