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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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Happiness ! pleasure I should rather say,
Happiness never made on earth a stay —

Life is a torrid day,
Parched with the dust and sun ;
And death's the calm cool night,
When the weary day is done.

The early graced of Grecian song,
The fragrant myrtle tree;
For it doth speak of happy love,
The delicate, the true.

The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

And this is the sum of our mortal state,
The hopes we number,—
Feverish waking, danger, death,
And listless slumber.

The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

I made myself a little boat
And launched it on the sea ;
And into the wide world went forth
To see what there might be.

November's night is dark and drear,
The dullest month of all the year.

Whenever I hear a man talking of the advantages of our ill-used sex, I look upon it as the prelude to some new act of authority.

Romance and Reality (1831)

Nothing discourages a child so much as the impossibility of pleasing.

The weakness of our nature—how soon any strong emotion masters it !

Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

At times we see and struggle with our chain,
And dream that somewhat we are freed, in vain;
The mighty fetters close on us again.

How strong is the love of the country in all indwellers of towns !

Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

—true love is like religion, it hath its silence and its sanctity.

Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

None but an ear, quickened as the mind can quicken the faculties of the body, could have heard a step that hesitated on the threshold.

AY, screen thy favourite dove, fair child,
Ay, screen it if you may,—
Yet I misdoubt thy trembling hand
Will scare the hawk away.

The Troubadour (1825)

The pleasure of change is opposed by that of habit ; and if we love best that to which we are accustomed, we like best that which is new.

Romance and Reality (1831)

I would have rather been a slave
In fettered bondage by thy side,
Than shared in all the world could give,
Had it not given thee beside.

They met with cold words, and yet colder looks:
Each was changed in himself, and yet each thought
The other only changed, himself the same.

The Improvisatrice (1824)

There are always an ample sufficiency of compassionate neighbours ready to console one who, by common consent, is styled "the disconsolate widower.”

A light compliment was never yet breathed by love.

Politeness, however, acts the lady's-maid to our thoughts ; and they are washed, dressed, curled, rouged, and perfumed, before they are presented to the public

Romance and Reality (1831)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Letitia Elizabeth Landon (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.