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Felicia Hemans
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“There smiles no Paradise on earth so fair, / But guilt will raise avenging phantoms there.”
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“In the busy haunts of men.”
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“Oh! what a crowded world one moment may contain!”
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“... life's best balm — Forgetfulness!”
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“The boy stood on the burning deck / Whence all but he had fled ...”
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“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.”
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“The stately Homes of England, / How beautiful they stand!”
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“Though the past haunt me as a spirit, I do not ask to forget.”
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“Home of the arts!”
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“Oh! call my brother back to me! / I cannot play alone; / The Summer comes with flower and bee — / Where is my brother gone?”
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“Ay, call it holy ground, / The soil where first they trod; / They have left unstained what there they found, — / Freedom to worship God.”
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“Strength is born / in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; / not amidst joy.”
Felicia Hemans, English poet
(1793 - 1835)
Full name:Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans.