Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The Lost Pleiad
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
“This was the truest warrior
That ever buckled sword;
This the most gifted poet
That ever breathed a word;
And never earth’s philosopher
Traced with his golden pen
On the deathless page truths half so sage
As he wrote down for men.”
Hymn: The Burial of Moses http://www.bethanyipc.org.sg/poems/bulletin080113.htm
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Context: There are three lessons I would write, —
Three words — as with a burning pen,
In tracings of eternal light
Upon the hearts of men. Have Hope. Though clouds environ now,
And gladness hides her face in scorn,
Put thou the shadow from thy brow, —
No night but hath its morn. Have Faith. Where'er thy bark is driven, —
The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth, —
Know this: God rules the hosts of heaven,
The habitants of earth. Have Love. Not love alone for one,
But men, as man, thy brothers call;
And scatter, like the circling sun,
Thy charities on all. Thus grave these lessons on thy soul, —
Hope, Faith, and Love, — and thou shalt find
Strength when life's surges rudest roll,
Light when thou else wert blind.
“My song shall spread where ever there are men,
If wit and art will so much guide my pen.”
Luís de Camões (1524–1580) Portuguese poet
Cantando espalharei por toda parte,
Se a tanto me ajudar o engenho e arte.
Stanza 2, lines 7–8 (tr. Richard Fanshawe, 1655)
Epic poetry, Os Lusíadas (1572), Canto I