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Felicia D. Hemans

1794 AD — 1835 AD

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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Historical source references

The Homes of England
Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers
The Palm-Tree
The Graves of a Household
Casabianca
The Hour of Death
Tyrolese Evening Song
Tale of the Secret Tribunal
Siege of Valencia
The Child's First Grief
The Voice of Spring
Rhine Song of the German Soldiers after Victory
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Printed page 169 · quotation 9 · Felicia D
Printed page 740 · quotation 17 · Felicia D

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01c. 1814 AD

The stately homes of England,— How beautiful they stand, Amid their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land!

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02c. 1814 AD

The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches tossed.

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03c. 1814 AD

What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine, The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? They sought a faith's pure shrine.

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04c. 1814 AD

Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod: They have left unstained what there they found,— Freedom to worship God.

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05c. 1814 AD

Through the laburnum's dropping gold Rose the light shaft of Orient mould, And Europe's violets, faintly sweet, Purpled the mossbeds at its feet.

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06c. 1814 AD

They grew in beauty side by side, They filled one home with glee: Their graves are severed far and wide By mount and stream and sea.

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07c. 1814 AD

Alas for love, if thou wert all, And naught beyond, O Earth!

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08c. 1814 AD

The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead.

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09c. 1814 AD

Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north-wind's breath, And stars to set; but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!

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10c. 1814 AD

Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.

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11c. 1814 AD

In the busy haunts of men.

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12c. 1814 AD

Calm on the bosom of thy God, Fair spirit, rest thee now!

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13c. 1814 AD

Oh, call my brother back to me! I cannot play alone: The summer comes with flower and bee,— Where is my brother gone?

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14c. 1814 AD

I have looked on the hills of the stormy North, And the larch has hung his tassels forth.

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15c. 1814 AD

I had a hat. It was not all a hat,— Part of the brim was gone: Yet still I wore it on.

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16Undated

The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast; And the woods, against a stormy sky, Their giant branches tost.

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17Undated

"Passing away" is written on the world and all the world contains.

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18Undated

Fair land! of chivalry the old domain, Land of the vine and olive, lovely Spain! Though not for thee with classic shores to vie In charms that fix th' enthusiast's pensive eye; Yet hast thou scenes of beauty richly fraught With all that wakes the glow of lofty thought.

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19Undated

There is none In all this cold and hollow world no fount Of deep strong deathless love save that within A mother's heart.

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20Undated

The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast. And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches toss'd.

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