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!
firefly blow orange
Is it where the flow'r of the orange blows, And the fireflies dance thro' the myrtle boughs?
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!
hats gone stills
I had a hat. It was not all a hat,-Part of the brim was gone:Yet still I wore it on.
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?
sympathy kindred
We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own.
death seasons
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!