The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but he had fled;
The flame that lit the battle's wreck
Shone round him o'er the dead. [Casablanca]
Felicia Hemans quote We pine for kindred natures
To mingle with our own.
Felicia Hemans quote Passing away' is written on the world and all the world contains
Felicia Hemans quote There's beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes
Can trace it 'midst familiar things, and through their lowly guise
Felicia Hemans quote Where shall we make her grave?
Oh! where the wild flowers wave
In the free air!
When shower and singing-bird
'Midst the young leaves are heard,
There - lay her there!
Felicia Hemans quote 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?
Felicia Hemans quote Rome, Rome, thou art no more
As thou hast been!
On thy seven hills of yore
Thou sat'st a queen.
Felicia Hemans quote I too, Shepherd, in Arcadia dwelt.
Felicia Hemans quote Biography
Lived 1793-1835
