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

[Sylvia Milne]

I think that might be the one.
Thank you!

Sylvia Milne

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis Lien" <Dennis.K.Lien-1 at tc.umn.edu>
To: <list at project-wombat.org>
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 4:43 PM
Subject: Re: [PW] Poem by Mrs Felicia Hemans used in radio production of 
Nicholas Nickleby


> 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
>
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