Louisa Stuart Costello
Who is Louisa Stuart Costello
Louisa Stuart Costello (9 October 1799 – 24 April 1870) was an Anglo-Irish writer on travel and French history, said to have been born either in Ireland or Sussex.
Life and work
Costello lived in Paris, France, near the River Seine (according to her death certificate). She had no true home, but went from place to place staying with friends and acquaintances. She and her brother Dudley Costello, also well known for travel writing, promoted the copying of illuminated manuscripts. By the age of 15 she had become a proficient artist and later her earnings from miniature painting were enough to support her mother and to keep her brother while he attended Sandhurst.She wrote over 100 texts, articles, poems and songs, and knew such people as Sir Walter Scott, Charles Di...
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Louisa Stuart Costello Poems
- To A False Friend
Adieu!â??'tis pastâ??the dream is over,
And we are friends no more;
And now my task shall be to smother
Thoughts prized too well beforeâ??
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- The Inca
'Tis eve, the sun is sinking in the lakeâ??
The lake, all glorious with his golden beams,
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- Song.-thou Art Gone
Thou art gone, and the brilliant light that shone
In the track of thy way is fled;
And thou leav'st the heart that loved thee alone,
Silent, and cold, and dead!
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- Song.-'tis The Spot Where We Parted
'Tis the spot where we partedâ??
Oh! never again
Can its breeze or its blossoms
Awake but to pain.
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- Lines.-i Cannot Sleep
I cannot sleepâ??my nights glide on
In one unbroken thought of thee;
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- Safetymentalst: "song for a german air" by louisa stuart costello:
fair stream of the mountain, brightly flowing
between thy fresh margins, gay with flowers,
lifes uncertain visions showing;
thus, like thy waters glide past the hours.
- Safetymentalst: from "sylphs song" by louisa stuart costello:
then come away!
no more delay,—
- Ngvthing: scene near the great orme's head
1844
louisa stuart costello
- Musicrecbot: take a listen to:
memory by louisa stuart costello
- Mflibra: 1913 rare book - the rose garden of persia by louisa stuart costello. persian poetry.
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