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Hester Chapone

  • “Thou gentle nurse of pleasing woe, / To thee from crowds, and noise, and show, / With eager haste I fly; / Thrice welcome, friendly Solitude, / O let no busy foot intrude, / Nor listening ear be nigh!”

    • Hester Chapone,
    • "Ode to Solitude," in Alexander Dyce, ed., Specimens of British Poetesses ()

Hester Chapone, Engish poet

(1727 - 1801)

Full name: Hester Mulso Chapone.