Poetical Fragments from Ethel Churchill Volume III/The Sick Room

by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

CHAPTER XX.

THE SICK-ROOM.

'Tis midnight, and a starry shower
Weeps its bright tears o'er life and flower;
Sweet, silent, beautiful the night,
Sufficing for her own delight.
But other lights than sky and star,
From yonder casement gleam afar;
The lamp subdued to the heart's gloom
Of suffering, and of sorrow's room.

Blanchard’s title is:

THE SICK ROOM

Adapted from The Queen of Cyprus in The Golden Violet