Poems of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in The English Bijou Almanacks, 1836-1839/Mrs. Somerville

by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

From The Literary Gazette, 24th December, 1836.

"Mrs. Somerville.

She has brought down beside the hearth
    The secrets of the skies,
And made the far and mighty stars
    Familiar to our eyes.

This has a woman done; and she
    Is graceful, winning, mild;
And mingles with the sage’s lore,
    The sweetness of a child.

In life‘s divine and common things
    Alike she has her part;
The gifted and the glorious mind
    Touched by the gentle heart."