“And there is ev'n a happiness
That makes the heart afraid!”

— Thomas Hood

Ode to Melancholy http://www.gerald-massey.org.uk/eop_hood_poetical_works_2.htm#057, st. 6 (1827).
1820s

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British writer 1799–1845

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