Letter II
The Nemesis of Faith (1849)
“The happiest heart that ever beat
Was in some quiet breast
That found the common daylight sweet,
And left to Heaven the rest.”
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Matthew Arnold
(1822–1888) English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools
" The Buried Life http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/arnold/writings/buriedlife.html" (1852), st. 2
Context: Alas! is even love too weak
To unlock the heart, and let it speak?
Are even lovers powerless to reveal
To one another what indeed they feel?
I knew the mass of men conceal'd
Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd
They would by other men be met
With blank indifference, or with blame reproved;
I knew they lived and moved
Trick'd in disguises, alien to the rest
Of men, and alien to themselves — and yet
The same heart beats in every human breast!
“Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest;
Home-keeping hearts are happiest.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807–1882) American poet
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
(1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The Sisters from The London Literary Gazette: 13th March 1824 Metrical Tales - Tale III.
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)
“A luxury of deep repose! the heart
Must surely beat in quiet here.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
(1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The London Literary Gazette, 1824
Richard Lovelace
(1617–1658) English writer and poet
To Lucasta: Going to the Wars, st. 1.
Lucasta (1649)
“Leave the breast
And then the nest
And then regret you ever left.”
Kate Bush
(1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, Never for Ever (1980)
“The heavens and earth stay as they were; my heart
Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth.”
Valence, in Act IV.
Colombe's Birthday (1844)
“O pastoral heart of England! like a psalm
Of green days telling with a quiet beat.”
Arthur Quiller-Couch
(1863–1944) British writer and literary critic
Poem Ode upon Eckington Bridge, River Avon, in Poems and Ballads, 1896
Loreena McKennitt
(1957) Canadian musician and composer
The Mask and Mirror (1994), The Dark Night of The Soul
Context: Upon a darkened night the flame of love was burning in my breast
And by a lantern bright I fled my house while all in quiet rest.
Shrouded by the night and by the secret stair I quickly fled.
The veil concealed my eyes while all within lay quiet as the dead.