Felicia Hemans

1793–1835

Best-known poems

• Casabianca

  [Young Casabianca, a boy about thirteen years old, son of the Admiral of the Orient, remained at his post (in the Battle of the Nile) after the ship had taken fire and all the guns had been abandoned, and perished in the explosion of the vessel, when the flames had reached the powder.]
  THE BOY st…

• The Hour of Death

  LEAVES have their time to fall,
  And flowers to wither at the north-wind’s breath,
  And stars to set—but all, …

All poems (14)

Poets of the same era

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807–1882 Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809–1892 Lord Byron 1788–1824 Robert Browning 1812–1889 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792–1822 William Wordsworth 1770–1850 BB Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806–1861 John Greenleaf Whittier 1807–1892