Source: The Vampire Armand
“Oh, she had yet the task to learn
How often woman's heart must turn
To feed upon its own excess
Of deep yet passionate tenderness!
How much of grief the heart must prove
That yields a sanctuary to love!”
Canto I
The Troubadour (1825)
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon
(1802–1838) English poet and novelist
(20th March 1824) Metrical Tales. Tale IV.— The Troubadour
The London Literary Gazette, 1824
Hyperion, book ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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