Note 345 — BOOK IX[283]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Elisa Mercœur (1809-1835), the girl poet, died before the above lines were written. The first edition of her Poésies appeared in 1827, when Mademoiselle Mercœur was only eighteen years old. Her Complete Works were published in 1843, in three volumes 8vo.—T.