Madeleine Quinn
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Compare Landon other poem on this subject: Juliet after the Masquerade. From a picture by Henry Thomson, Esq., R. A. published in The Literary Souvenir, 1828.

One of the Poetical Sketches of Modern Pictures
in The Troubadour and Other Poems, 1825

This poem also appears as "The Upper Lake of Killarney"

This is a Sketch form History from The Troubadour and Other Poems, 1825

This was from Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1834 to accompany a picture of Canova's sculpture of Hebe.

This poem is from Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1832.
It should be formatted as follows:
I wish for the days of the olden time,
When the hours were told by the abbey chime,
When the glorious stars looked down through the midnight dim,
Like approving saints on the choir's sweet hymn:
I think of the days we are living now
And I sigh for those of the veil and the vow.

in four verses. more »

This revolutionary poem was one of the first to incorporate those ideas that William Jerdan called original and extraordinary.

This poem is shown at its full title "A girl at her Devotions. by Newton"

From Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1833

I'm wondering why very few of the poems I have been posting fit into any of these categories.

The poem accompanies a plate showing Bona, which was on the coast of Algeria in an area which was notorious for pirates. Today, this is the city of Annaba.

Maybe it is now safe to holiday there again. I hope so!

These are the closing verses of the poem 'Hindoo and Mahommedan Buildings' in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835, not Sassor in the Deccan - my mistake!

From The Monthly Magazine, 1826 volume 2
It tells the story of Giocante Casabianca, a 12-year old boy, who was the son of Luce Julien Joseph Casabianca. Casabianca was the commander of Admiral de Brueys' flagship, l'Orient , Giocante Casabianca stayed at his post aboard the flagship L'Orient during the Battle of the Nile. Giocante Casabianca and his father both died in an explosion when the fire reached the gunpowder store. more »

The first two verses have accidentally been merged into one