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

[Patricia Hatch]

Hello--

Using Google Book Search: http://books.google.com, I found Hemans' "A 
Farewell Song" in this volume: The Harp of the Wilderness, or Flowers 
of Modern Fugitive Poetry, London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., Whittaker 
& Co., Darton and Son; and A. Copland, Chelmsford, 1836, pp. 49-50:

I GO, sweet friends! yet think of me,
When spring's low voice awakes the flowers,
For we have wandered far and free
In those bright hours-the violet's hours!

I go-but when you pause to hear
 From distant hills the sabbath-bell
On summer's wind float silvery clear
Think of me then-I lov'd it well!

Forget me not around your hearth,
When clearly shines the ruddy blaze;
For dear has been its hour of mirth
To me, sweet friends! in other days!

And oh! when music's voice is heard
To melt in strains of parting woe,
When hearts to tender thoughts are stirr'd
Think of me then-I go! I go!


Patty


  At 12:19 PM 6/8/2007, you wrote:
>I think that might be the one.
>Thank you!
>
>Sylvia Milne
>
>Please visit me at
>http://www.sylviamilne.co.uk
>----- 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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Patricia Hatch
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