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Felicia Hemans Biography

Felicia Dorothea Hemans (25 September 1793 – 16 May 1835) was an English poet. Two of her opening lines, The boy stood on the burning deck and The stately homes of England, have acquired classic status.

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Is it where the flow'r of the orange blows, And the fireflies dance thro' the myrtle boughs?

Blow, Blows, Dance, Firefly, Orange

The opening and the folding flowers, that laugh to the summer's day.

Day, Flower, Flowers, Folding, Laughing, Summer

Alas! for love, if thou art all, And nought beyond, O earth.

Alas, Art, Life, Nought, Thou

We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own.

Kindred, Mingle, Natures, Pine, Sympathy

There is in all this cold and hollow world, No fount of deep, strong,deathless love ;save that within a mother's heart

Cold, Deep, Fount, Heart, Mother, Strong

The stately Homes of England,How beautiful they stand!Amidst their tall ancestral trees,O'er all the pleasant land.

Ancestral, Beautiful, Home, Land

life's best balm - Forgetfulness!

Balm, Forget, Forgetfulness

Passing away" is written on the world and all the world contains.

Away, Death, Passing Away, World, Written

Come, I come! ye have called me long, I come o'er the mountain with light and song: Ye may trace my step o'er the wakening earth, By the winds which tell of the violet's birth, By the primrose-stars in the shadowy grass, By the green leaves, opening as I pass.

Grass, Mountain, Song, Spring, Stars, Trace

There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found?

Dwelling, Found, Heart, Shafts, Strength

I had a hat. It was not all a hat,-Part of the brim was gone:Yet still I wore it on.

Brim, Gone, Hat, Hats, Stills, Wore

A passion for flowers, is, I think, the only one which long sickness leaves untouched with its chilling influence.

Flower, Influence, Long, Passion, Thinking, Untouched

Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!

Death, Hast, Seasons, Thine, Thou

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