O dream of fame, what hast thou been to me
But the destroyer of life's calm content!
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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Romance and Reality (1831)
Let worldly coldness and care depart,
And yield to the spell of the minstrel's art.
The Golden Violet (1827)
Alas! alas! how plague-spot like will sin
Spread over the wrung heart it enters in!
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
Death never excites such sympathy as it does when it assumes the shape of murder.
Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)
There is an antique gem, on which her brow
Retains its graven beauty even now.
The Golden Violet (1827)
Distrust is an acquired feeling — we never doubt till we have been deceived ...
Francesca Carrara (1834)
The Improvisatrice (1824)
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)
The Golden Violet (1827)
Thrice venomed is the wound when 'tis Love's hand
Inflicts the blow.
Philosophers are moral, and poets are picturesque about the country.
So much to win, so much to lose,
No marvel that I fear to choose.
The Golden Violet (1827)
Dreary it is the path to trace,
Step by step of sin's wild race.
The Golden Violet (1827)
Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)
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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Letitia Elizabeth Landon (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.