Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Trending quotes (page 37)

“Egmont:
Love is not
A bird of prey, to pay the hunter's toil —
He is best won by those who seek him not.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Translations, From the German

Love , Bird

“Glory of earth, and light from heaven,
Young Genius! but for thee,
And the wild wonders to thee given,
How base our earth would be!”

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(19th May 1827) Genius
The London Literary Gazette, 1827

Light

“How many children, discontented with the exercise of needful authority, might learn submission and thankfulness from the lot of others; such a temper as that we have been describing is very uncommon; the treatment of children oftener errs on the side of over-indulgence than aught else. How many might be taught better to appreciate the blessings which surround them by considering what some, less fortunate than themselves, are called upon to endure!”

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Traits and Trials of Early Life (1836)

Children , Exercises , Learning

“What was our parting?—one wild kiss,
How wild I may not say,
One long and breathless clasp, and then
As life were past away.”

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(29th March 1823) Song - What was our parting ?—one wild kiss,
The London Literary Gazette, 1823

Life , Kiss , Past , Parting

“O! the heart has all too many tears;
But none are like those that wait
On the blighted love, the loneliness
Of the young orphan’s fate.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Golden Violet - Sir Walter Manny at his Father’s Tomb
The Golden Violet (1827)

Love , Fate , Tear , Waiting

“She is but the type of all,
Mortal or celestial,
Who allow the heart,
In its passion and its power,
On some dark and fated hour,
To assert its part.”

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(1836-3) (Vol.48) Subjects for Pictures. Second Series. I. Calypso Watching the Ocean
The Monthly Magazine

Fate , Passion , Heart , Parting

“She leant upon her harp, and thousands looked
On her in love and wonder—thousands knelt
And worshipp'd in her presence—burning tears,
And words that died in utterance, and a pause
Of breathless, agitated eagerness,
First gave the full heart's homage: then came forth
A shout that rose to heaven; and the hills,
The distant valleys, all rang with the name
Of the Æolian Sappho—every heart
Found in itself some echo to her song.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Sappho from The London Literary Gazette (4th May 1822) Poetic Sketches. 2nd Series - Sketch the First
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

Love , Tear , Distant , Heart

“to enjoy yourself is the easy method to give enjoyment to others; …”

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Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

“The shade fell darker from the clustering vine,
Whose green boughs twined the lattice like a wreath;
The lark had ceased the musical glad laugh
With which he hails the morning; note by note
The matin song had died upon the wind;
The dew which hung upon the cypresses
Had turned to sunshine on the waving leaves;”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(14th February 1829) Lines on Newton’s Picture of the Disconsolate
The London Literary Gazette, 1829

Music

“The evil spirit of love left his soul for a moment, but returned, though with a strange and lurid aspect, bringing with him other and worse spirits than himself—hate, revenge, blood-thirstiness—all merged in and coloured by the excited and fanatic temper of the time.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Other Gift Books

Love , Hate , Soul , Revenge

“Take that singing bird away!
It has too glad a lay
For an ear so lorn as mine!
And its wings are all too light,
And its feathers all too bright,
To rest in a bosom like mine!”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

Bird , Light , Singing

“The field is fought—who walketh there?—
The shadow victory casts—Despair!”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

Victory , Despair

“Death never excites such sympathy as it does when it assumes the shape of murder.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

Death

“Human nature is accused of much more selfishness than it really has; a thousand kindly emotions break in upon and redeem our daily and interested life.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

Life , Nature , Selfishness

“I made myself a little boat
And launched it on the sea;
And into the wide world went forth
To see what there might be.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(30th April 1825) Realities
The London Literary Gazette, 1825

World , Sea

“My power was but a woman’s power;
Yet, in that great and glorious dower
Which Genius gives, I had my part:
I poured my full and burning heart”

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Title Poem
The Improvisatrice (1824)

Heart , Parting

“Oh! moral of enjoyment! — scattered, crushed : —
The pale checks of the few that staid, like ghosts
Haunting the footsteps of departing mirth,
While the bright pictures over them looked down
Almost in mockery.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(17th July 1824) Poetic Sketches - 5th Series. Sketch the First. - Fidelity
The London Literary Gazette, 1824

“The assertion that “What is everybody’s business is nobody’s,” is true enough; but the assertion that “What is nobody’s business is everybody’s,” is still truer. Now, a love affair, for example, is, of all others, a thing apart--an enchanted dream, where “common griefs and cares come not.” It is like a matrimonial quarrel--never to be benefited by the interference of others: it is a sweet and subtle language, “that none understand but the speakers;” and yet this fine and delicate spirit is most especially the object of public curiosity. It is often supposed before it exists: it is taken for granted, commented upon, continued and ended, without the consent of the parties themselves; though a casual observer might suppose that they were the most interested in the business.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Monthly Magazine

Love , Dreams , Understanding , Business

“It is so sad —
So very lonely — to be the sole one
In whom there is a sign of change!”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Knight’s Tale from The London Literary Gazette: 31st July 1824 Poetic Sketches - 5th Series - Sketch the Third
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

Sadness , Change

“How deep, how merciless, the love represt,
That robs the silent midnight of its rest;
That sees in gather'd crowds but one alone;
That hears in mingled footsteps only one;
That turns the poet's page, to only find
Some mournful image for itself design'd;
That seeks in music, but the plaining tone
Which secret sorrow whispers is its own!”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Neglected One
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

Love , Secret , Music