Poetical Fragments from Ethel Churchill Volume II/The Heart’s Omens

by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

CHAPTER XXXVII.

THE TRUTH OF PRESENTIMENTS.

I felt my sorrow ere it came,
    As storms are felt on high,
Before a single cloud denote
    Their presence on the sky.

The heart has omens deep and true,
    That ask no aid from words;
Like viewless music from the harp,
    With none to wake its chords.

Strange, subtle, are these mysteries,
    And linked with unknown powers,
Marking mysterious links that bind
    The spirit world to ours.

Blanchard’s title is:

THE HEART’S OMENS

In The New York Mirror (24th March 1838) under the chapter heading.