Wind-Whispers: A Collection of Poems (Classic Reprint)
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Float ...)
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Float on, thou wandering wind, And sing of good, as when The notes of the noble Lind Swept the deep souls of men. To spirits pure and bright Thy lay of joy impart, And let thy wing of light Droop o'er the dreaming heart.
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Lucy Virginia Smith French was an author. She began to write for the Louisville Journal under the name “L’lnconnue. ”
Background
Lucy Virginia was the daughter of Mease W. and Elizabeth (Parker) Smith. She was born on March 16, 1825, in Accomac County, Virginia. Her parents came from families of wealth and culture.
Her father, educator, and a lawyer was chancellor of Virginia and successively professor of Greek and Latin and president of Washington College in Virginia.
Her maternal grandfather, a merchant in the South American and East Indian trade, as an officer in the Revolution was known as “Fighting Tom Parker. ”
Education
Following the death of her mother, Lucy and her younger sister were sent to Mrs. Hannah’s School in Washington, Pennsylvania, where they were graduated.
Career
On their return to Virginia, as their father had remarried, the two girls were not happy, so Lucy and her younger sister went to Memphis, Tennessee, and became teachers. Virginia began also to write for the Louisville Journal under the name “L’lnconnue. ”
In 1852, she became associate editor of the Southern Ladies’ Book, New Orleans.
During the twenty-eight years of their married life, they lived at “Forest Home, ” in the mountains near McMinnville, Tennessee. With abundant means and a husband who encouraged her, Mrs. French continued her literary work.
From 1856 to 1879, she was literary editor of various newspapers and magazines, among them the Southern Homestead, Nashville; the Rural Sun, the Sunny South, the Crusader, and the Ladies’ Home, all of Atlanta; and the Southern Literary Messenger, Richmond.
Pier work, both in prose and poetry, was thoroughly spontaneous. She wrote because she loved to, just as she painted, played upon the piano, embroidered, and worked in her garden. Some of her friendly critics deplored her lack of ambition and failure to devote herself more seriously to literature.
She died at McMinnville, after a long illness, and is buried in the little cemetery there.
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Views
Lucy was liberal in her views. In the Civil War, which Lucy had seen approaching, she remained a warm supporter of the Union and wrote in behalf of its restoration.
The romantic and the heroic appealed to her and form the basis of both her prose and poetry. She handled blank verse well and had a sense of the dramatic which enabled her to produce a good climax. Her verse is probably her best work.
Personality
Lucy's home and her family were her first interest; writing shared second place with many other occupations. She was a woman of piquant beauty and charm, witty in conversation.
Connections
Lucy was married, on January 12, 1853, to Col. Johns Hopkins French, a wealthy Tennessee stockman.
One of her poems, called “One or Two, ” had made him resolve to ask the author to marry him. He went to Memphis for the purpose, met “L’lnconnue” by accident in a book-shop, and the wedding soon took place.