Felicia Hemans

Quotes

• “But fair the exil'd Palm-tree grewMidst foliage of no kindred hue;Through the laburnum’s dropping goldRose the light shaft of Orient mould,And Europe’s violets, faintly sweet,Purpled the mossbeds at its feet.”
• “They grew in beauty side by side,They filled one home with glee:Their graves are severed far and wideBy mount and stream and sea.”
• “Alas for love, if thou wert all,And naught beyond, O Earth!”
• “The boy stood on the burning deck,Whence all but him had fled;The flame that lit the battle's wreckShone round him o'er the dead.”
• “The flames roll'd on­-he would not goWithout his father's word;That father, faint in death below,His voice no longer heard.”
• “The stately Homes of England,How beautiful they stand!Amidst their tall ancestral trees,O'er all the pleasant land.”

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