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“I would give worlds, could I believe
One-half that is profess'd me;
Affection! could I think it Thee,
When Flattery has caress'd me.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Song - I pray thee let me weep to-night
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

“No one can deny—no one would think of denying—the vast benefit which literature has conferred on mankind; and with what ingratitude has it ever been received!”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Monthly Magazine

“Love is divine in our belief
Of its eternity — how vain,
When we have known that Love can die,
To think that he can live again!”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

4th February 1826) The Past (under the pen name Iole
The London Literary Gazette, 1826

“Charles coloured, from “a complication of disorders.” First he was quite shy enough to be annoyed at its being supposed that he cared whether there were any young ladies in the world or not; and, secondly, he was quite romantic enough to be shocked at the idea of money supplying the want of a pretty face.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Monthly Magazine

“The bard, the warrior, and the sage,
What win they but one lying page,
Where deeds and words, at hazard thrown,
May be or may not be their own?”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Lost Pleiad
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

“But Love’s bright fount is never pure;
And all his pilgrims must endure
All passion’s mighty suffering
Ere they may reach the blessed spring.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Title Poem
The Improvisatrice (1824)

“The generality labour under the delusion, that when they have lighted and filled their rooms, they have done their all. They never were more in error. Lighting is much—crowding is much also—but there lacks “something more exquisite still.” This something the countess possessed in its perfection. Any can assemble a crowd, but few can make it mingle.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Monthly Magazine

“The dying chief sprang to his knee,
And the staunch'd wounds well'd fearfully;
But his gash'd arm, what is it now?
Livid his lip, and black his brow,
While over him the slayer stood,
As if he almost scorn'd the blood
That cost so little to be won,—
He strikes,—the work of death is done!”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Combat. By Etty
The Troubadour (1825)

“He had married for love, under the frequent delusion of supposing that love will last under every circumstance most calculated to destroy it; and, secondly, that it can supply the place of everything else.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Monthly Magazine

“Faintly coloured like a dream of bliss, a half formed rainbow hung on the departing storm, as fearful of yet giving promise of peace.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Other Gift Books

“It is most sad to watch the fall
Of autumn leaves!--but worst of all
It is to watch the flower of spring
Faded in its fresh blossoming!”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Title Poem
The Improvisatrice (1824)

“I believe the love of flowers to be as inherent in the disposition as any other inclination.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Traits and Trials of Early Life (1836)

“One of those gifted ones that walk the earth,
Like angels in their beauty, and the while
The air is filled with music from their wings.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(31st January 1829) Lines to the Author after Reading the Sorrows of Rosalie
The London Literary Gazette, 1829

“Literary taste is often confounded with literary talent by others, quite as much as by ourselves.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Monthly Magazine

“O Memory! noble power! thy reign is here.
Strange destiny, how thus, from age to age,
Doth man complain of that which he has lost.
Still do departed years, each in their turn,
Seem treasures of happiness gone by:
And while mind, joyful in its far advance,
Plunges amid the future, still the Soul
Seems to regret some other ancient home
To which it is drawn closer by the past.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Translations, From the French

“There is an antique gem, on which her brow
Retains its graven beauty even now.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Erinna
The Golden Violet (1827)

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

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

“Glorious and beautiful
Were youth's feeling and youth's thought—
Would that we did not annul
All that in us then was wrought!
Would their influence could remain
When the hope and dream depart;
Would we might through life retain
Still some youth within the heart!”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(11th August 1832) Youth
The London Literary Gazette, 1832

“It is not in the calm and measured paths of to day that we see the more bold and pronounced characters, whose outlines have been rough-hewn by the strong hand of necessity; yet to such troubled times often belong the development of our noblest and best qualities — the stormy gulf of Ormus throws up the finest pearls. It is not in the season of tranquility that we know aught of the generous devotion, the fertility of resource, and the forgetfulness of self often shown in the hour of trial. When the French revolution broke out, how many, only accustomed to indolence, luxury, and custom, showed that "there was iron in the rose;" and, whether at the call of duty or of affection, were prepared to bear even to the uttermost, and to exert a fortitude till then undreamed of.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Literary Remains

“Of all the months that fill the year
Give April's month to me,
For earth and sky are then so filled
With sweet variety!”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Vow of the Peacock (1835)