“Is there some nameless boding sent,
Like a noiseless voice from the tomb?—
A spirit note from the other world,
To warn of death and doom?”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Wreck from The London Literary Gazette (10th September 1825) - under the pen name Iole
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

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“Is there some nameless boding sent,Like a noiseless voice from the tomb?—A spirit note from the other world,To warn of death and doom?”

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“Is there some nameless boding sent,
Like a noiseless voice from the tomb?—
A spirit note from the other world,
To warn of death and doom?”