Felicia Hemans
Felicia Hemans
Felicia Dorothea Hemanswas an English poet...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth25 September 1793
amidst beautiful england homes pleasant tall
The stately homes of England! / How beautiful they stand, / Amidst their tall ancestral trees, / O'er all the pleasant land!
cottage england homes thousands
The cottage homes of England! / By thousands on her plains.
death passing-away world
Passing away" is written on the world and all the world contains.
flower passion thinking
A passion for flowers, is, I think, the only one which long sickness leaves untouched with its chilling influence.
forget forgetfulness
life's best balm - Forgetfulness!
summer brother flower
Oh, call my brother back to me!I cannot play alone:The summer comes with flower and bee,-Where is my brother gone?
death seasons
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!
christmas lovely-voice sky
Oh! lovely voices of the sky Which hymned the Saviour's birth, Are ye not singing still on high, Ye that sang, "Peace on earth"?
freedom holy-ground soil
Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod, They have left unstained, what there they found,- Freedom to worship God.
courage heart suffering
Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, Suffering, yet hoping all things.