Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Trending quotes (page 12)

“Deep in the silent waters,
A thousand fathoms low,
A gallant ship lies perishing —
She foundered long ago.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(12th January 1833) The Lost Ship
The London Literary Gazette, 1833-1835

Water

“I dread the pictures of my dreams,
For, then I gaze on thee;
And thou art near, and thou art all
That I would have thee be.
And then I startle from my sleep,
And know all false, and watch and weep.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(10th April 1824) Love in Absence
The London Literary Gazette, 1824

Dreams , Art , Sleep , Falseness

“… oh! love will last
When all that made it happiness is past,—
When all its hopes are as the glittering toys
Time present offers, time to come destroys”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Juliet after the Masquerade. By Thompson
The Troubadour (1825)

Love , Hope , Time , Past

“There grew her father's cypress tree,
No other monument had he.
He bade that never funeral stone
Should tell of glory overthrown,—
What could it say, but foreign sky
Had seen the exile pine and die?”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Golden Violet - The Wreath
The Golden Violet (1827)

Tree

“IT is in this we differ; I would seek
To blend my very being into thine—
I'm even jealous of thy memory:
I wish our childhood had been pass'd together.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Ancestress (Spoken by Bertha to Jaromir)
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

Memory , Childhood

“… any one who has noticed may have observed that the weeping of grown up persons produces a sensation of awe on the mind of a child. Accustomed to associate the idea of superiority with that of their elders, they cannot understand their giving way to the same emotions as themselves.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Traits and Trials of Early Life (1836)

Way , Idea , Understanding , Personality

“Weep for life, with its toil and care,
Its crime to shun, and its sorrow to bear;
Let tears and the sign of tears be shed
Over the living, not over the dead!”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(21st August 1830) The Legacy of the Roses
The London Literary Gazette, 1830

Life , Tear , Dead

“Then rose those deadlier sounds that tell
When foes meet hand to hand,—
The shout, the yell, the iron clang
Of meeting spear and brand.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Golden Violet - The Falcon
The Golden Violet (1827)

“Who has not loathed that worst, that waking hour,
When grief and consciousness assert their power;
When misery has morn's freshness, yet we fain
Would hold it as a dream, and sleep again;”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Title poem, section VI.
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

Dreams , Sleep

“Her likeness! why it is a vain endeavour
To image it. Painting or words may never
Say what she was; yet dwell I on the task,
As if that Poesy had a right to ask
From Memory its treasure.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

25th March 1826) Ianthe. A Portrait (under the pen name Iole
(25th March 1826) Moon See The Vow of the Peacock
The London Literary Gazette, 1826

Memory , Painting

“[From Cecil Forrester]: Nothing like love-letters for filling up a rainy morning. A mistress gives a man such an interest in himself! You cannot run your fingers through your hair, without a vision of the locket wherein one of your curls reposes on the fairest neck in the world. An east-wind only conjures up a host of "sweet anxieties;" and if the worst comes to the worst, you can sit down and write sonnets to your inamorata's eyebrow.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

Love , World

“I had lost of humanity but its illusions, and they alone are what render it supportable.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

Support

“Huge bodies of vapour—a storm in each—were hurrying over a sky, dashed alike with the hues of the tempest and the morning; some of the vapours were of inky blackness, others spread like a scroll of royal purple; some undulated with the light struggling through, others were of transparent whiteness; but those upon the east were of a deep crimson—and the round, red sun had just mounted above an enormous old cedar. Red hues were cast upon everything; even the lilies blushed, and the waters of the little fountain were like melted rubies…”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Monthly Magazine

Light , Water , Sun

“Oh, love is timid in its birth!
Watching her lightest look or stir,
As he but look'd and breathed with her.
Gay words were passing, but he leant
In silence; yet, one quick glance sent,—
His secret is no more his own,
When has woman her power not known?”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Canto II
The Troubadour (1825)

Love , Secret , Birth , Silence

“Oh! what is memory but a gift
Within a ruin'd temple left,
Recalling what its beauties were,
And then presenting what they are.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Canto III
The Troubadour (1825)

Beauty , Memory

“Take ye my solemn farewell! O, my friends,
Already night is darkening on my eyes;—
But is not Heaven most beautiful by night?
Thousands of stars shine in the kindling sky,
Which is an azure desert during day.
Thus do the gathering of eternal shades
Reveal innumerable thoughts, half lost
In the full daylight of prosperity.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Translations, From the French

Beauty , Star , Night

“I'm weary, I'm weary,—this cold world of ours;
I will go dwell afar, with fairies and flowers.
....
I'm weary, I'm weary,—I'm off with the wind:
Can I find a worse fate than the one left behind?”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Fantasies, inscribed to T. Crofton Croker, Esq.
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

Fate , World , Flowers

“{of Theatres} There, while weeping for sorrows which are not, laughing at the light jest or the ludicrous misadventure, how little is remembered of the want which makes fear the only bond that binds the living to life!”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

Life , Fear , Light

“And the hall is lone, and the hall is drear,
For the smiling of woman shineth not here.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Improvisatrice (1824)

Smile

“Expectation is in itself a very pretty sort of reality.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Monthly Magazine

Reality