The Ladies' Wreath Author:Sarah Josepha Buell Hale Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE LADIES' WREATH PART FIRST. FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS. The name of Mrs. Hemans stands pre-eminent among female poetic writers, as unquestionably as the... more » Rose holds the rank of "garden queen" among the flowers. She has gone from us, but the light of her genius will never be dimmed, nor the song of her harp forgotten. She has thrilled those chords of the human soul, which, while the race of man continues, cannot but respond to her sentiments.— Love, in all its purest, holiest, sweetest emotions of household affections, patriotism and devotion, was the mighty spell by which she wrought; and till love shall cease from earth, her name can never die. In perusing the Poems of Mrs. Hemans, we are struck with her wonderful perception of the beautiful. This seems to be her peculiar gift. Whatever be the scene described, the character or object introduced, she always The Poems of Mrs. Hemans have been published in a variety of forms, and in many editions. The latest and most complete is the American edition,published, since her decease, by Mr. Ash, of Philadelphia. It comprises all her works, in one vol. octavo. gathers around her images and allusions of exceeding beauty ; and these selected with a moral taste so pure and refined, that it seems to have shed the lustre of heaven upon the things of earth. This exhibition of refined moral taste, which can only be cultivated in perfection when regulated by piety of heart, will be of inestimable benefit to the young imaginative reader; and so purely beautiful did her Poems appear, that we scarcely knew when to pause in our selection. Mrs. Hemans does, in truth, merit the gratitude as well as admiration of her sex, for she has exalted the genius of woman, and shown an example of excellence in private life,— thus proving that...« less