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“We do too little feel each others' pain;
We do relax too much the social chain
That binds us to each other; slight the care
There is for grief in which we have no share.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Golden Violet - The Rose
The Golden Violet (1827)

“Tis something, if in absence we can see
The footsteps of the past: it soothes the heart
To breathe the air scented in other years
By lips beloved; to wander through the groves
Where once we were not lonely”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Guerilla Chief
The Improvisatrice (1824)

“The past! ah, we owe it a tenderer debt,
Heaven's own sweetest mercy is not to forget;
Its influence softens the present, and flings
A grace, like the ivy, wherever it clings.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

“... the clock
Was placed where full the sun-beams fell;—what deep,
Simple morality spoke in those hands,
Going their way in silence, till a sound,
Solemn and sweet, made their appeal to Time,
And the hour spoke its only warning!”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

“(of names) Literary godfathers and godmothers, like those in real life, have much to answer for, on the score of the inappropriate.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Literary Remains

“what an odd thing it is, that the indications of terror are usually ludicrous!”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

“The woman raised her languid head,
And said, "My child was weak
He knew no one amid the dead
His daily food to seek!
My husband was a hunter good
As ever arrows bore :
I know my child will now have food,
Therefore I weep no more.
I sit and think upon the past,
And sing my mournful strain :
I know that we shall meet at last,
And never part again."”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The London Literary Gazette (24th January 1835) Versions from the German (Fourth Series.) 'The Huron's Child'— Herder.
Translations, From the German

“Oh, she had yet the task to learn
How often woman's heart must turn
To feed upon its own excess
Of deep yet passionate tenderness!
How much of grief the heart must prove
That yields a sanctuary to love!”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Canto I
The Troubadour (1825)

“I will look on the stars and look on thee,
and read the page of thy destiny.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(11th October 1823) The Gipsy's Prophecy.
(25th October 1823) Sketch see The Improvisatrice (1824) The Warrior
(15th November 1823) Poetic Sketches. Fourth Series. Sketch I. — The Painter. See The Vow of The Peacock
(6th December 1823) Poetic Sketches. Fourth Series. Sketch IV.— A Village Tale. See The Vow of the Peacock
The London Literary Gazette, 1823

“There is truth and certainty in our first impressions. First impressions are natural monitors, and nature is a true guide.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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“Truly, night was made for sleep; since to its wakeful hours belongs an oppression unknown to the very dreariest hours of day. The stillness is so deep, the solitude so unbroken, the fever brought on by want of rest so weakens the nerves, that the imagination exercises despotic and unwholesome power, till, if the heart have a fear or a sorrow, up it arises in all the force and terror of gigantic exaggeration.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

“The gallantry of an English peasant rarely expands into words.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

“Yet one arrow has a power
Lasting till life's latest hour--
Weary day and sleepless night,
Lightning gleams of fierce delight,
Fragrant and yet poisoned sighs,
Agonies and ecstasies;
Hopes, like fires amid the gloom,
Lighting only to consume!”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Improvisatrice (1824)

“We met in secret : mystery is to love
Like perfume to the flower; the maiden's blush
Looks loveliest when her cheek is pale with fear.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(18th May 1822) Poetic Sketches. Second Series - Sketch the Third. Rosalie
25th May 1822) St. George’s Hospital, Hyde Park Corner see The Improvisatrice (1824
The London Literary Gazette, 1821-1822

“Beautiful and radiant May,
Is not this thy festal day?
Is not this spring revelry
Held in honour, Queen, of thee?”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(3rd May 1823) Poetical Catalogue of Paintings - On May-day, by Leslie
The London Literary Gazette, 1823

“My heart is like the failing hearth
Now by my side,
One by one its bursts of flame
Have burnt and died.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Golden Violet - Clemenza’s Song
The Golden Violet (1827)

“Tis strange how the heart can create
Or colour from itself its fate;
We make ourselves our own distress,
We are ourselves our happiness.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Canto IV
The Troubadour (1825)

“My heart is with thee, Iove! though now
Thou'rt far away from me :
I envy even my own thoughts,
For they may fly to thee.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(19th October 1822) Songs of Absence
The London Literary Gazette, 1821-1822

“Hope is a timid thing,
Fearful, and weak, and born in suffering;
At least, such Hope as human life can bring.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(1834-1, page 303) The Future. Re-used in Ethel Churchill (or The Two Brides) Vol. I, Chapter 31
The Monthly Magazine

“A summer isle, one over which the wind
Hath ever pass'd in melody,— such airs
As are born in the rose's breast, and die
Like singing on the waters.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The London Literary Gazette, 1823