There’s a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam.
Eliza Cook Quotes
How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, When memory plays an old tune on the heart.
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| Birth: | 1812 |
| Death: | 1889 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Poet |
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Eliza Cook was born in London Road, Southwark, England. She was an English poet. She was a proponent of political freedom for women, and believed in the ideology of self-improvement through education, something she called "levelling up." Her first volume, Lays of a Wild Harp, appeared in 1835, when she was only seventeen. Her poem The Old Armchair made hers a household name for a generation, both in England and the United States. In that year, she published Melaia and other Poems.
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