I don't have the right pictures to illustrate this poem, but it has really touched my heart and I just had to share it. Nothing that is truly beautiful is useless or will ever be lost! Why art thou thus in thy beauty cast,
10 Comments
JanetLee
2/5/2019 09:29:55 pm
Beautiful, just beautiful.
Reply
Veleria
2/5/2019 11:13:18 pm
What a touching and beautiful poem.
Reply
Veleria
2/6/2019 11:15:46 pm
I'm getting them now. They are coming from [email protected]. I think I was dumping them in spam because it did not say it was from your site and I wouldn't open them. I got brave and your name Joanna was there. I do have to put the check in the box to notify me for new comments before I start to type in this box or it won't work. Whew! I finally figured it all out. Yeah! Veleria
Reply
Oh good!! That is a suspicious sounding email address, so no wonder you thought it was spam. I thought it would at least say it was from Weebly. I used to automatically get emails whenever there was a new comment and that is what it always said, but that was over a year ago. I finally opted out of getting the emails because I check my control page regularly anyway. Anyway, I'm happy you figured it out! 😊
Reply
I get choked up every time I read it, too. I didn't anything about the poet either...I just found that poem in a book called Flowers: Their Moral, Language, and Poetry, by H. G. Adams. I looked her up. Her name was Felicia Hemans, and she lived from 1793-1835. She is best known for her poem Casabianca, with the first line "The boy stood on the burning deck". I don't think I've read the poem before but strange to say that line sounds very familiar!
Reply
Peter Bolton
12/27/2019 02:40:55 pm
Thank you for your beautiful presentation of this poem. I found it because I am putting Felicia Hemans's poetry onto wikisource and, finding it in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1832, I was looking to see if it was subsequently included in Hemans's published volumes. Unusually, it is not, at least not until 1845. It is telling that you had not heard of Mrs Hemans because she was, in her day, one of the most widely read British poets and can easily hold her own with Wordsworth. What followed was the blatantly sexist propaganda of the all male literary establishment for whom the norms of academic analysis counted for nothing when it came to female poets
Reply
That is all very interesting! I just looked at her page on Wikisource and will be back to read through more in the future. Thank you for making all of that available!
Reply
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorI am a passionate gardener and seed-saver, who also enjoys playing the violin and accordion, running, spending time with my 4 golden retrievers, keeping chickens, photography, and reading. Archives
March 2019
|