Letitia Elizabeth Landon on Alone
1802–1838 England
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Yes, solitude amid her depths has many a hidden balm
Guarded for those who leave her not, to strengthen and to calm.
The sudden start, the rapid step once more,—
As if it would annihilate the time:—
But who may paint the solitude of crime?
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
It was hidden in a wild wood
Of the larch and pine ;
It had been unto his childhood
Solitude and shrine, —
There he dream'd the hours away.
We have heard of the solitude of the wide ocean, of the sandy desert, of the pathless forest; but, for a real, thorough, and entire knowledge, far beyond Zimmerman’s, of the pleasures of solitude, commend us to a young damsel doomed to a sofa and female society, while quadrille after quadrille is formed in her sight, and the waltzes go round like stars with whose motions we have nothing to do.
Romance and Reality (1831)