grief-hushed

Updated: June 12, 2025

And thy rose's summer fragrance Floated round that chamber pale, With the gentle melancholy Of the grief-hushed nightingale. It was in the evening circle of the intellectual Froriep that I met, for the first time, with Auerbach, who then chanced to be staying in Weimar.

H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen - True Story of My Life