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Authentic Romantic Poetry
Could there be anything more romantic than taking your loved one on a picnic with a book of poetry to read to each other? Dip into The Domestic Affections and Other Poems from the British Women Romantic Poets Project.
Written by Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, who lived from 1795-1835, they hearken back to a time when life's simple pleasures were held more dear. She celebrates many domestic affections, for members of her family, music and happy memories.
"The Indian Lover" summons his love with these lines:
"I'll climb each tall, aspiring tree,
To seek nectareous fruits for thee;
I'll cull the blossoms op'ning fair,
In blushing wreaths to bind thy hair:
For thee the streams in murmurs flow;
For thee the buds empurpling glow;
For thee the balmy zephyrs play;
Arise, my Zumia ! haste away !
Love blossoms even in the sub-Arctic. Among the most unique of the devotions celebrated is that found in "The Laplander to his Reindeer." The fourth of eight stanzas opens: "When love gave the word, o'er the landscape of snow, We flew like the wings of the wind."
Written by Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, who lived from 1795-1835, they hearken back to a time when life's simple pleasures were held more dear. She celebrates many domestic affections, for members of her family, music and happy memories.
"The Indian Lover" summons his love with these lines:
"I'll climb each tall, aspiring tree,
To seek nectareous fruits for thee;
I'll cull the blossoms op'ning fair,
In blushing wreaths to bind thy hair:
For thee the streams in murmurs flow;
For thee the buds empurpling glow;
For thee the balmy zephyrs play;
Arise, my Zumia ! haste away !
Love blossoms even in the sub-Arctic. Among the most unique of the devotions celebrated is that found in "The Laplander to his Reindeer." The fourth of eight stanzas opens: "When love gave the word, o'er the landscape of snow, We flew like the wings of the wind."
