Who was the bestselling English poet of the nineteenth century? No, not Tennyson or Byron or Wordsworth-but Felicia Hemans (1793–1835), "the most considerable woman poet of the Romantic period" and "the most notable British poet flourishing between the death of Byron and the rise of Tennyson and the Brownings" (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2008). With an unfailing and seemingly effortless command of language, she voiced the deepest concerns of ordinary people, especially women, to an extent that no other writer of her time could do. The 106 poems in this collection range from the legends of Wales to the historical records of Greenland, and from the superstitions of ancient Babylon to her own personal struggles with desertion, loneliness, and fatal illness. Introduction The Voice of Spring Rome Buried in her own Ruins Dirge from The Siege of Valencia Belshazzar's Feast The Rock of Cader-Idris Epitaph on Mr W-- The Lost Pleiad Treasures of the Deep The Hour of Death The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers Evening Prayer at a Girls' School The American Forest Girl The Grave of a Poetess The Sound of the Sea The Illuminated City Christ Stilling the Tempest The Things that Change The Broken Chain To a Wandering Female Singer The Fountain of Oblivion The Minster The Ancestral Song Woman and Fame A Thought of the Future The Mirror in the Deserted Hall A Thought of Paradise To the Mountain Winds The Funeral of Sir Walter Scott The Prayer in the Wilderness The Indian's Revenge Female Characters 1-2 Female Characters 3-6 Female Characters 7-8 Female Characters 9-12 Female Characters 13-15 Sonnets Devotional 1-2 Sonnets Devotional 3-12 Sonnets Devotional 13-15 Spring 1834 1-7 Spring 1834 8-12 Spring 1834 15-22 Autumn 1834 Thoughts During Sickness The Huguenot's Farewell Antique Greek Lament Despondency and Aspiration Sabbath Sonnet Superstition and Revelation
