Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The Lost Star from The Literary Souvenir, 1828
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)
“O'er yonder eastern hill the twilight pale
Walks forth from darkness; and the God of day,
With bright Astraea seated by his side,
Waits yet to leave the ocean.”
Hymn to the Naiads (1746), lines 1–4
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