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Letitia Elizabeth Landon was an English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L.

✵ 14. August 1802 – 15. October 1838
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

“Mysterious enthusiasm, Love!
The heart's supremest power;—which doth combine
Within itself religion, poetry,
And heroism.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Translations, From the French

Love , Religion , Heart

“In this consists the difference between painting and poetry : the painter reproduces others, — the poet reproduces himself.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Monthly Magazine

Painting

“Rode by radiant shapes that seem
Creatures made of bloom and beam,
With their hair and plumes' gay dyes
Glorious as the morning skies.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The London Literary Gazette, 1824

“Hope is love's happiness, but not its life;—
How many hearts have nourished a vain flame
In silence and in secret, though they knew
They fed the scorching fire that would consume them!”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Improvisatrice (1824)

Love , Life , Secret , Hope

“The shadow of the church falls o'er the ground,
Hallowing its place of rest; and here the dead
Slumber, where all religious impulses,
And sad and holy feelings, angel like,
Make the spot sacred with themselves, and wake
Those sorrowful emotions in the heart
Which purify it, like a temple meet
For an unearthly presence. Life, vain Life,
The bitter and the worthless, wherefore here
Do thy remembrances intrude?”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

Life , Sadness , Angels , Feeling

“I rather disdained than coveted the luxuries I saw : alas! we desire riches more for others than ourselves.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

“What is the reason that we find it so satisfactory to make excuses to ourselves—the only persons in the world to whom they must be altogether needless?”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

World , Personality

“A woman whose lover resigns her, and as if for her own sake, though without consulting her, is placed in a most awkward situation. What can she do? Take him at his word? That is easy to say, but hard to do, when all the hopes and affections are garnered in his love.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Monthly Magazine

Love , Hope , Lovers

“What a visionary thing is the independence of youth! how full of projects, which take the shape of certainties! How much of rugged and stern experience it requires to convince the young and the eager, that the efforts of an individual unaided by connexion or circumstance, are the true reading of the allegory of the Danaides : —industry and skill, alas, how often are they but water drawn with labour into a bucket full of holes!”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

Youth , Effort , Water , Reading

“But as old tradition tells,
There are other, deeper, spells
In the lone and mystic wells —
Spells of strange wild augury
Few have had the heart to try.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The London Literary Gazette, 1824

Heart

“Statues but known from shapes of the earth,
By being too lovely for mortal birth;
Paintings whose colours of life were caught
From the fairy tints in the rainbow wrought;
Music whose sighs had a spell like those
That float on the sea at the evening’s close
Language so silvery, that every word
Was like the lute’s awakening chord;”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Title Poem
The Improvisatrice (1824)

Love , Life , Music , Birth

“These are thy bridal flowers
I am now wreathing;
This is thy marriage hymn
I am now breathing.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

12th January 1822) Sketch the first ("There are dark yew-trees gathered round, beneath"
The London Literary Gazette, 1821-1822

Marriage , Flowers

“No man ever enters into the feelings of a woman, let his kindness be what it may; they are too subtle and too delicate for a hand whose grasp is on "life's rougher things."”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

They require that sorrow should find a voice ; now the most soothing sympathy is that which guesses the suffering without a question.
No.7. Rob Roy — DIANA VERNON.
Literary Remains

Life , Feeling

“There is a flower, a purple flower
Sown by the wind, nursed by the shower,
O'er which Love has breathed a power and spell
The truth of whispering hope to tell.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

According to the Lady's Book of Flowers, 1842 , this is the centaury
Source: The London Literary Gazette, 1824

Flowers , Truth , Hope , Love