Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Trending quotes (page 38)

“Violets! — deep-blue violets!
April's loveliest coronets!
There are no flowers grow in the vale,
Kiss'd by the dew, wooed by the gale, —
None by the dew of the twilight wet,
So sweet as the deep-blue violet!”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Violet
The Improvisatrice (1824)

Flowers

“Sweet Hope! every pleasant flower
Suns itself in thy glad power;
Every sorrow comes to thee,
Desart fount for Misery!”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(15th March 1823) Poetical Catalogue of Pictures. Hope, from a design by a Lady.
The London Literary Gazette, 1823

Hope , Flowers , Sun

“… who cares for a general compliment more than a general lover.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Monthly Magazine

Lovers

“Ah! I appeal to all who have any sensibility — for themselves — how delightful it is to be called in the morning, yet not to obey that call. It combines two of the greatest enjoyments of which our nature is susceptible— obstinacy and indolence.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Monthly Magazine

Nature

“What is the light from yon deep wood flashing —
What the sound on the wild wind borne?
What the dark ranks that are onwards dashing
To the voice of the pealing horn?
Who are they that thundering go? —
It is the Black Hunt of the bold Litzou!”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The London Literary Gazette (3rd January 1835) Versions from the German (First Series.) - 'The Black Hunt of Litzou'
Translations, From the German

Light

“… we all know mysteries are very fascinating things.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Traits and Trials of Early Life (1836)

“True love is timid, as it knew its worth,
And that such happiness is scarce for earth.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Golden Violet - The Child of the Sea
The Golden Violet (1827)

Love , Happiness

“Her heart and lip were music, albeit one
Who marvell'd at what her sweet self had done;
Who breathed for Love, and pined to find that Fame
In answer to her lute's soft summons came;
See, the eye droops in sadness, as to shun
That which it dared not gaze on, Glory's sun.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(1825-2) Ideal Likenesses. Erinna
The Monthly Magazine

Love , Sadness , Music , Sun

“a poet's love
Is immortality!”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Minstrel of Portugal from The London Literary Gazette (21st September 1822)
The Improvisatrice (1824)

Love

“Even in childhood's innocence of pleasure
Lives that destroying spirit which in time
Will waste, then want, the best of happiness.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

Pleasure , Time , Childhood , Happiness

“We talk of unsophisticated nature—I should like to know where it is to be found.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

Nature

“Awakening hope has named the name
Of love, or blown its spark to flame.
Restlessness, but as the winds range
From leaf to leaf, from flower to flower;
Changefulness, but as rainbows change,
From colour'd sky to sunlit hour.
Ay, well indeed may minstrel sing,—
What have the heart and year like spring?”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Canto II
The Troubadour (1825)

Love , Hope , Spring , Flowers

“Tis this which makes
The best assurance of our promised heaven:
This triumph intellect has over death—
Our words yet live on others' lips; our thoughts
Actuate others. Can that man be dead
Whose spiritual influence is upon his kind?”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

A History of the Lyre
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

Death , Dead

“Clara:
Neighbours, dear friends, ye dream, ye dream : awake!
Gaze not on me with sadly wondering eyes,
I only bid you to your actual wish.
My voice is but the voice of your own hearts.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The London Literary Gazette (7th March 1835)
Translations, From the German

Dreams , Heart

“Out upon the folly which, in estimating human misery, allows aught to bear comparison with the agony of the poor! I use the word poor relatively; I call not those poor to whom honesty brings self-respect, whose habits and whose means have gone together, and whose industry is its own support. But those are the poor whose exertion supplies not their wants—to whom cold, hunger, and weariness, are common feelings; who have known better days—to whom the past furnishes contrast, and the future fear.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

Hunger , Fear , Feeling , Support

“Lonely — lonely on the shore —
Where the mighty waters roar,
Would that she could pass them o'er!
Doth the maiden stand.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Monthly Magazine

Water

“Difficulty is as needful to appreciation as labour is to existence.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

No.5. The Antiquary— MISS WARDOUR.
Literary Remains

“vanity, like all social vices, craves for novelty;”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

“Weep not for the dead with a fruitless recalling,
Their soul on the wings of the morning hath fled;
Mourn rather for those whom yet life is enthralling,
Ah! weep for the living—weep not for the dead.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

All from The Vow of the Peacock - Second Canto
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

Life , Soul , Dead

“Who shall say
The love of genius is a common thing,
Such as the many feel—half selfishness,
Half vanity?—for genius is divine,
And, like a god, doth turn its dwelling-place
Into a temple; and the heart redeem'd
By its fine influence is immortal shrine
For love's divinity.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

A Summer Evening’s Tale
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

Love , God , Feeling , Heart