Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
(20th November 1824) Constancy
The London Literary Gazette, 1824
“When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away.”
From the Preface to A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists, (c 1779)
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