Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . onstant illness of her father and youngbrother; and on the whole, sorrow is theprevailing note in her poems. After several years spent in travel, shehad determined to devote herself to teach-ing, when she was married in 1869 toCharles of Hohenzollern, Prince of Rouma-nia. Elizabeth entered on her new sphere with enthusiasm; thor-oughly acquiring the Roumanian language, and so winning the loveof her people that she is known among them as their << little mother.^*She founded schools, asylums, hospitals, art galleries, and art sch
Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . onstant illness of her father and youngbrother; and on the whole, sorrow is theprevailing note in her poems. After several years spent in travel, shehad determined to devote herself to teach-ing, when she was married in 1869 toCharles of Hohenzollern, Prince of Rouma-nia. Elizabeth entered on her new sphere with enthusiasm; thor-oughly acquiring the Roumanian language, and so winning the loveof her people that she is known among them as their << little mother.^*She founded schools, asylums, hospitals, art galleries, and art schools;and in every way strove to develop Roumanian nationality. The death of her little daughter in 1874 led her to express her sor-row in verse. Up to this time her poems had been simply sponta-neous utterances; but now she began to study the art of compositionunder the guidance of Alexandre, the Roumanian poet. Her poeticlabors were soon interrupted by the Turko-Russian war, during whichshe devoted herself to work among the soldiers, and in the Carmen Sylva I4330 CARMEN SYLVA Roumania became a kingdom in 1881. Shortly before her coronation,Elizabeth published her first book, — a translation of Roumanian po-ems. Her first collection of original poems appeared in 1881, entitled * Storms.* It contains four poems, the best of which is * Sappho.*The following year she published * Sorrows Earthly Pilgrimage *; *? TheEnchantress*; ^Jehovah,* describing the wanderings of Ahasuerus insearch of God; ^A Prayer *; and ^ Pensees dune Reine * (A QueensThoughts), — a book of aphorisms, which won a medal of honor fromthe French Academy. In 1883 appeared < From Carmen SylvasKingdom,* — a collection of Roumanian fairy tales and legends, a sec-ond series of which was brought out in 1887, together with ^Throughthe Centuries.* Another collection, ^ Fairy Tales from the Pelesch,*takes its title from the stream near the beautiful royal palace in theSinaja valley. To this year al
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