Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The Golden Violet - The Child of the Sea
The Golden Violet (1827)
“This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,
And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.”
A Summer's Evening Meditation.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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