Quotes from The Golden Violet — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
1802–1838 England
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True love is timid, as it knew its worth,
And that such happiness is scarce for earth.
Out on the heartless creed which nulls the claim
Upon the heart of kindred, birth, and name.
For love is like the breathing wind,
That everywhere may entrance find.
Thou know'st how fearless is my trust in thee.
For he had curious colours, that could give
The human face so like, it seem'd to live.
Where on earth is the truth that may vie
With woman's lone and long constancy?
Childhood whose very happiness is love.
O dream of fame, what hast thou been to me
But the destroyer of life's calm content!
Let worldly coldness and care depart,
And yield to the spell of the minstrel's art.
There is an antique gem, on which her brow
Retains its graven beauty even now.
So much to win, so much to lose,
No marvel that I fear to choose.
Dreary it is the path to trace,
Step by step of sin's wild race.
My heart is like the failing hearth
Now by my side,
One by one its bursts of flame
Have burnt and died.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Letitia Elizabeth Landon (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.