The Poems of Felicia Hemans

by Mrs. Hemans

Felicia Hemans was one of the most widely read poets of the early nineteenth century, admired by Wordsworth and Scott and reprinted in America for decades after her early death in 1835. This collected edition gives her poetical works in order, from the juvenile verses published when she was fourteen, through The Domestic Affections, Tales and Historic Scenes, The Siege of Valencia, The Forest Sanctuary, Records of Woman and Songs of the Affections, to the devotional poems of her last years, with a chronology of her life. Here are Casabianca, with the boy who stood on the burning deck, The Homes of England, The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, and The Graves of a Household, which generations of schoolchildren learned by heart. The poems are available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, with the first poems free.