Who is Felicia Dorothea Hemans

Felicia Dorothea Hemans (25 September 1793 – 16 May 1835) was an English poet (who identified as Welsh by adoption). Two of her opening lines, "The boy stood on the burning deck" and "The stately homes of England", have acquired classic status.

Early life and education

Felicia Dorothea Browne was the daughter of George Browne, who worked for his father-in-law's wine importing business and succeeded him as Tuscan and imperial consul in Liverpool, and Felicity, daughter of Benedict Paul Wagner (1718–1806), wine importer at 9 Wolstenholme Square, Liverpool and Venetian consul for that city. Hemans was the fourth of six children (three boys and three girls) to survive infancy. Her sister Harriett collaborated musically with Hemans and later edited her complete work...
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Felicia Dorothea Hemans Poems

  • Moon-light
    COME, gentle muse! now all is calm,
    The dew descends, the air is balm;
    Unruffled is the glassy deep,
    While moon-beams o'er its bosom sleep; ...
  • To A Younger Child
    A Similar Occasion, 17 September, 1825.


    Where sucks the bee now? Summer is flying; ...
  • Paraphrase Of Psalm: Cxlviii
    Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye the Lord from the heavens: praise him in the heights.

    PRAISE ye the Lord! on every height
    Songs to his glory raise! ...
  • Valkyriur Song
    The Sea-king woke from the troubled sleep
    Of a vision-haunted night,
    And he look'd from his bark o'er the gloomy deep,
    And counted the streaks of light; ...
  • Casabianca
    The boy stood on the burning deck
    Whence all but he had fled;
    The flame that lit the battle's wreck
    Shone round him o'er the dead. ...
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Trqq44: felicia dorothea browne hemans born on september 25, 1793, in liverpool. she was the fifth of seven children her first book of poems was published in 1808 .. received some harsh reviews.
Chezdolan: 'the haunted house' i seem like one who treads alone some banquet-hall deserted, whose lights are fled, whose garlands dead, and all but me departed. (felicia dorothea hemans b. 1793 - d. 1835)
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Harthousejames: "the haunted house" (1834) by felicia dorothea hemans a poem from the early 19th century gothic revival in literature, and a metaphor reflecting a haunted mind; it's much like poe's "haunted house" poem in "the fall of the house of usher."
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