Felicia Hemans citations

Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans est une poétesse née le 25 septembre 1793 à Liverpool et morte le 16 mai 1835.

Elle publie son premier recueil de poèmes en 1808.

Elle a contribué à la féminisation de la culture au XIXe siècle, et aux bases du féminisme.

Ce fut une des poétesse les plus lues de son temps dans le monde anglophone.

Aujourd'hui, ses poèmes les plus connus sont The Homes of England et Casabianca et qui évoque la mort du fils du commandant du navire l'Orient lors de la bataille d'Aboukir. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. septembre 1793 – 16. mai 1835
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Felicia Hemans: Citations en anglais

“In the busy haunts of men.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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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