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Felicia Hemans

Overview

Felicia Heman's paternal grandfather was George Browne of Passage, co. Cork, Ireland; her maternal grandparents were Elizabeth Haydock Wagner (d. 1814) of Lancashire and Benedict Paul Wagner (1718–1806), wine importer at 9 Wolstenholme Square, Liverpool. Family legend gave the Wagners a Venetian origin; family heraldry an Austrian one. The Wagners' country address was North Hall near Wigan; they sent two sons to Eton College.

Quotations

Calm on the bosom of thy God,Fair spirit, rest thee now!

The Siege of Valencia (1823), scene ix, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

I have looked on the hills of the stormy North,And the larch has hung his tassels forth.

The Voice of Spring (published 1835), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Alas for love, if thou wert all,And naught beyond, O Earth!

The Graves of a Household, st. 8

The boy stood on the burning deck,Whence all but him had fled;The flame that lit the battle's wreckShone round him o'er the dead.

Casabianca (poem)|Casabianca, st. 1 (1826)

The flames roll'd on-he would not goWithout his father's word;That father, faint in death below,His voice no longer heard.

Casabianca, st. 3

Oh, call my brother back to me!I cannot play alone:The summer comes with flower and bee,—Where is my brother gone?

The Child's First Grief (1828)

Leaves have their time to fall,And flowers to wither at the north-wind’s breath,And stars to set; but all,Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!

The Hour of Death