“Words are powerless to tell. —
Such the image in my heart, —
Painter, try thy glorious art!”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(16th November 1822) Fragments in Rhyme III: Outline for a Portrait
23rd November 1822) Fragments in Rhyme IV: Arion see The Improvisatrice (1824
The London Literary Gazette, 1821-1822

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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