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“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.”

Felicia Hemans Casabianca

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.”

Felicia Hemans Casabianca

Casabianca, st. 3.

“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.”

Felicia Hemans

The Palm Tree http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/hemans/records/tree.html, st. 2.

“In the busy haunts of men.”

Felicia Hemans

"Tale of the Secret Tribunal" (published 1822), part i, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“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.”

Felicia Hemans

The Graves of a Household http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/hemans/records/graves.html, st. 1.

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

Felicia Hemans

The Homes of England http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/hemans/records/homes.html, st. 1 (1828).

Felicia Hemans Quotes

“Ay, call it holy ground,
The soil where first they trod;
They have left unstained what there they found —
Freedom to whorship God.”

Felicia Hemans

Stanza 10.
The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers http://www.poetry-archive.com/h/landing_of_the_pilgrim_fathers.html (1826)

God , Freedom

“Come to the sunset tree!
The day is past and gone;
The woodman’s axe lies free,
And the reaper’s work is done.”

Felicia Hemans

Tyrolese Evening Song, st. 1.

Tree , Past

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

Felicia Hemans

Rhine Song of the German Soldiers after Victory.

Parting

“Calm on the bosom of thy God,
Fair spirit, rest thee now!”

Felicia Hemans

The Siege of Valencia (1823), scene ix, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

God

“Oh, call my brother back to me!
I cannot play alone:
The summer comes with flower and bee,—
Where is my brother gone?”

Felicia Hemans The Child's First Grief

The Child's First Grief (1828).

Flowers , Bee , Summer

“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.”

Felicia Hemans

Stanza 2.
The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers http://www.poetry-archive.com/h/landing_of_the_pilgrim_fathers.html (1826)

Water , Night

“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.”

Felicia Hemans

Stanza 9.
The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers http://www.poetry-archive.com/h/landing_of_the_pilgrim_fathers.html (1826)

War , Faith , Sea , Wealth

“Alas for love, if thou wert all,
And naught beyond, O Earth!”

Felicia Hemans

The Graves of a Household, st. 8.

Love

“I have looked on the hills of the stormy North,
And the larch has hung his tassels forth.”

Felicia Hemans

The Voice of Spring (published 1835), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“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!”

Felicia Hemans

The Hour of Death (1824).

Death , Star , Flowers , Time

“The breaking waves dashed high
On a stern and rock-bound coast,
And the woods against a stormy sky
Their giant branches tossed.”

Felicia Hemans

Stanza 1.
The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers http://www.poetry-archive.com/h/landing_of_the_pilgrim_fathers.html (1826)

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