# 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).
* Signature of Felicia HemansCalm 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'

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Felicia Hemans on Wikipedia
* Works related to Author:Felicia Dorothea Hemans on Wikisource
* Media related to Felicia Hemans on Wikimedia Commons
* Felicia Hemans at UPenn Digital Library
* Felicia Hemans at The Victorian Web