Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
(31st March 1827) The Spirit of Dreams
The London Literary Gazette, 1827
“Softly, O midnight hours!
Move softly o'er the bowers
Where lies in happy sleep a girl so fair:
For ye have power, men say,
Our hearts in sleep to sway
And cage cold fancies in a moonlight snare.”
Song. Softly, O Midnight Hours; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 721.
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