“Peace to the weary and the beating heart,
That fed upon itself!”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
A History of the Lyre
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
“Whatever flames upon the night
Man’s own resinous heart has fed.”
— W.B. Yeats, book The Tower
II, st. 2 <br class="br">The Tower (1928), Two Songs From a Play http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1741/
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