“I LOVED her! ay, I would have given
A death-bed certainty of heaven
If I had thought it could confer
The least of happiness on her!”

—  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Canto III
The Troubadour (1825)

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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“I loved him as young Genius loves,
When its own wild and radiant heaven
Of starry thought burns with the light,
The love, the life, by passion given.
I loved him, too, as woman loves--
Reckless of sorrow, sin, or scorn:
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That, with him, I could not have borne!”

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