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An Angel In The House

By James Henry Leigh Hunt

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How sweet it were, if without feeble fright, Or dying of the dreadful beauteous sight, An angel came to us, and we could bear To see him issue from the silent air At evening in our room, and bend on ours His divine eyes, and bring us from his bowers News of dear friends, and children who have never Been dead indeed,as we shall know forever. Alas! we think not what we daily see About our hearths,angels that are to be, Or may be if they will, and we prepare Their souls and ours to meet in happy air; A child, a friend, a wife whose soft heart sings In unison with ours, breeding its future wings.

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About James Henry Leigh Hunt

Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) was an English critic, essayist, and poet who championed the Romantics. His poems "Jenny Kissed Me" and "Abou Ben Adhem" are among the most quoted short poems in English, and his literary criticism helped shape the Romantic movement.

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