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  November 2015     8 days ago

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Second Sight

A Dramatic Scene.

Ronald—Ellen


  Ellen.—Oh! I will chide thee, truant! Look how fair,
Like to love’s promises, the heavens appear!
The blue Night has put on her wreath of stars—
A bright queen in her proud regality!
The young Moon is...

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A History of the Lyre

Sketches indeed, from that most passionate page,
A woman's heart, of feelings, thoughts, that make
The atmosphere in which her spirit moves;
But, like all other earthly elements,
O'ercast with clouds, now dark, now touch'd with light,
With...

– by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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A Long While Ago

Still hangeth down the old accustom'd willow,

  Hiding the silver underneath each leaf,
So droops the long hair from some maiden pillow,

  When midnight heareth her else silent grief;
There floats the water-lily, like a sovereign

  Whose...

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A Lady's Beauty

Ladye, thy white brow is fair,
Beauty's morning light is there;
And thine eye is like a star,
Dark as those of midnight are:
Round thee satin robe is flung;
Pearls upon thy neck are hung:
Yet thou wearest silk and gem,
As thou hadst...

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A Girl at her Devotions. By Newton

SHE was just risen from her bended knee,
But yet peace seem'd not with her piety;
For there was paleness upon her young cheek,
And thoughts upon the lips which never speak,
But wring the heart that at the last they break.
Alas! how much of...

– by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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This was Felicia's last poem, written as she was dying.

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This poem is not by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and ought to be removed; It is by Felicia Hemans. I don't know how this error originated but it needs eradicating.

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