Felicia Hemans

Felicia Dorothea Hemans (September 25, 1793 – May 16, 1835) was an English poet.

Quotes

 * In the busy haunts of men.
 * "Tale of the Secret Tribunal" (published 1822), part i, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


 * Felicia Hemans signature.png on the bosom of thy God, Fair spirit, rest thee now!
 * The Siege of Valencia (1823), scene ix, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


 * I have looked on the hills of the stormy North, And the larch has hung his tassels forth.
 * The Voice of Spring (published 1835), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


 * But fair the exil'd Palm-tree grew Midst foliage of no kindred hue; 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.
 * The Palm Tree, st. 2.


 * 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.
 * The Graves of a Household, st. 1.


 * Alas for love, if thou wert all, And naught beyond, O Earth!
 * The Graves of a Household, st. 8.


 * 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.
 * Casabianca, st. 1 (1826).


 * The flames roll'd on­-he would not go Without his father's word; That father, faint in death below, His voice no longer heard.
 * Casabianca, st. 3.


 * The stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand! Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land.
 * The Homes of England, st. 1 (1828).


 * Oh, call my brother back to me! I cannot play alone: The summer comes with flower and bee,— Where is my brother gone?
 * The Child's First Grief (1828).


 * 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!
 * The Hour of Death (1824).


 * Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman’s axe lies free, And the reaper’s work is done.
 * Tyrolese Evening Song, st. 1.


 * I had a hat. It was not all a hat,— Part of the brim was gone: Yet still I wore it on.
 * Rhine Song of the German Soldiers after Victory.

The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers (1826)

 * The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches tossed.
 * Stanza 1.


 * And the heavy night hung dark, The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore.
 * Stanza 2.


 * 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.
 * Stanza 9.


 * Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod; They have left unstained what there they found — Freedom to whorship God.
 * Stanza 10.

Quotes about Felicia Hemans

 * Thou hast been round us, like a viewless spirit, Known only by the music on the air; The leaf or flowers which thou hast named inherit A beauty known but from thy breathing there: For thou didst on them fling thy strong emotion, The likeness from itself the fond heart gave; As planets from afar look down on ocean, And give their own sweet image to the wave.
 * Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1838 (1837), 'Felicia Hemans'