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Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

1802–1838 England

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (August 14, 1802 – October 15, 1838) was an English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L. E.

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It is wonderful how some words ever were invented, for they express what does not exist—confidence is among the number; confidence is what no human being ever really had in another.

Words are powerless to tell. —
Such the image in my heart, —
Painter, try thy glorious art !

How innocent, how beautiful thy sleep !
Sweet one, 'tis peace and joy to gaze on thee!

The Fate of Adelaide (1821)

But strong in your good cause.
Oh, ye are strong, If ye would know your strength!

Catruccio Castrucani (1841)

Oh ! never should a woman's words be more
Than sighs which have found utterance.

A single grave! —the only one
In this unbroken ground,
Where yet the garden leaf and flower
Are lingering around.

The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

We hope, plan, execute; will it be vain?
Or will the future be the past again?

Romance and Reality (1831)

Sweet Hope ! every pleasant flower
Suns itself in thy glad power ;
Every sorrow comes to thee,
Desart fount for Misery !

Oh! what is memory but a gift
Within a ruin'd temple left,
Recalling what its beauties were,
And then presenting what they are.

The Troubadour (1825)

Beautiful wreck! for still thy face,
Though changed, is very fair;
Like beauty's moonlight, left to shew
Her morning sun was there.

The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

I wrote my name upon the sand;
I thought I wrote it on thine heart.
I had no touch of fear, that words,
Such words, so graven, could depart.

Never day-beam hath shone o'er
Lovelier or wilder shore !
Half was land, and half was sea
Where the eye could only see
The blue sky for boundary.

I would not even have him weep
O'er his Italian love's last sleep.
Oh, tears are a most worthless token,
When hearts they would have soothed are broken.

The Improvisatrice (1824)

These are thy bridal flowers
I am now wreathing;
This is thy marriage hymn
I am now breathing.

She sleeps!—so sleeps the wretch beside the stake:
She sleeps!—how dreadful from such sleep to wake!

The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

How much we give to thoughts and things our tone-painting,
And judge of others' feelings by our own!

Romance and Reality (1831)

The lines were fill'd with many a tender thing,
All the impassion'd heart's fond communing.

The Improvisatrice (1824)

To connect the external object with the internal emotion is the sweetest privilege of poetry.

A weight is on the air, for ev'ry breeze
Has, bird-like, folded up its wings for sleep.

The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

Deep in the silent waters,
A thousand fathoms low,
A gallant ship lies perishing —
She foundered long ago.

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