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.
far filled graves grew home side
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.
boy burning deck stood
The boy stood on the burning deck - / Whence all but he had fled.
beautiful homes
The stately homes of England, / How beautiful they stand!
eye path midst
There’s beauty all around our paths, If but our watchful eyes Can trace it ’midst familiar things, And through their lowly guise.
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.