Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
(27th September 1823) Extracts from my Pocket Book. Song
The London Literary Gazette, 1823
“T is believ'd that this harp which I wake now for thee
Was a siren of old who sung under the sea.”
The Origin of the Harp.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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