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Quotes from The Venetian Bracelet — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

1802–1838 England

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Deceit is this world's passport: who would dare,
However pure the breast, to lay it bare?

The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

My tears are buried in my heart,
Like cave-locked fountains sleeping.

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-- social life is fill'd
With doubts and vain aspirings; solitude,
When the imagination is dethroned,
Is turned to weariness.

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Are we not like that actor of old time,
Who wore his mask so long his face took
Its likeness?

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The sudden start, the rapid step once more,—
As if it would annihilate the time:—
But who may paint the solitude of crime?

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Peace to the weary and the beating heart,
That fed upon itself!

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

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

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Alas! alas! how plague-spot like will sin
Spread over the wrung heart it enters in!

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Let music make less terrible
The silence of the dead;
I care not, so my spirit last
Long after life has fled.

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

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

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Alas! we make
A ladder of our thoughts, where angels step,
But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolves
Look down upon our slumbering acts.

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And all o'er heaven is that clear blue
The stars so love to wander through.
They're rising from the silent deep,
Like bright eyes opening after sleep.

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Her rival—hers—language has not a word
By woman's ear so utterly abhorr'd.
No marvel, for it robs her only part
Of sweet dominion—empire o'er the heart.

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I have such eagerness of hope
To benefit my kind;
And feel as if immortal power
Were given to my mind.

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How much we give to other hearts our tone,
And judge of others' feelings by our own!

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Thy voice is sweet, as if it took
Its music from thy face.
And word and mien, and step and look,
Are perfect in their grace.

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Thou blessed season of our spring,
When hopes are angels on the wing;
Bound upwards to their heavenly shore,
Alas! to visit earth no more.

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For wishes are effectual but by will,
And that too much is impotent and void
In frail humanity; and time steals by
Sinful and wavering, and unredeem'd.

The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

Attribution

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