“The heart hath its mystery, and who may reveal it,
Or who ever read in the depths of their own? —
How much, we never may speak of, yet feel it,
But, even in feeling it, know it unknown!”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

A Night in May
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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