Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835). The Siege of Valencia (1823). II. Dirge: "Calm on the Bosom of thy God". Alfred H. Miles, ed. 1907. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century

Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.

The Siege of Valencia (1823)
II. Dirge: “Calm on the Bosom of thy God”

By Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793–1835)


(Scene IX) CALM on the bosom of thy God,
Fair spirit! rest thee now!
E’en while with ours thy footsteps trode
His seal was on thy brow.

Dust, to its narrow house beneath!	5
Soul, to its place on high!
They that have seen thy look in death
No more may fear to die.