“Tis strange with how much power and pride
The softness is of love allied;
How much of power to force the breast
To be in outward show at rest,—
How much of pride that never eye
May look upon its agony!
Ah! little will the lip reveal
Of all the burning heart can feel.”

—  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Canto IV
The Troubadour (1825)

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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