“It was my evil star above,
Not my sweet lute, that wrought me wrong;
It was not song that taught me love,
But it was love that taught me song.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Title Poem
The Improvisatrice (1824)

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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