[PW] Poem by Mrs Felicia Hemans used in radio production of Nicholas Nickleby

[Dennis Lien]

At 03:27 AM 6/8/2007, you wrote:
>This is for me and fellow listeners to BBC 7.
>Recently, they broadcast a version of Nicholas Nickleby which was introduced
>by a haunting snatch of song.
>It began "'Farewell - and no more think of me' and a message-board
>contributer thinks that it is 'Farewell Song' by Mrs Felicia Hemans, written
>about 1829-30.
>They couldn't find out anything more, but I of course know people who can!
>
>A BBC 7 host said that the version used for Nicholas Nickleby was recorded
>specially as the theme for the production in 1999 - the performers were
>Melanie Pappenheim and Anne Wood., but he didn't know any more either.
>
>Sylvia Milne


I can't find any match in Hemans using tools available to me, but
if the word "never" might replace "no more," maybe it's this one?


"Song" by L.E.L. (Laetitia Elizabeth Landon)
in her THE IMPROVISATRICE AND OTHER POEMS (1831)

Farewell! -- and never think of me --
In lighted hall or lady's bower!
Farewell -- and never think of me --
In spring sunshine or summer hour! --
But when you see a lonely grave,
Just where a broken heart might be,
With not one mourner by its sod,
Then -- and then only -- think of me!


Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien at umn.edu