“It is most sad to watch the fall
Of autumn leaves!--but worst of all
It is to watch the flower of spring
Faded in its fresh blossoming!”
Title Poem
The Improvisatrice (1824)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 785
English poet and novelist 1802–1838Related quotes
“While Memory watches o'er the sad review
Of joys that faded like the morning dew.”
Part II, line 45
Pleasures of Hope (1799)
(14th October 1826) Changes
The London Literary Gazette, 1826
“Tis not for Spring to think on all
The sear and waste of Autumn's fall:”
Canto I
The Troubadour (1825)
Source: Helen Craig McCullough's translations, Kokin Wakashū: The First Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry (1985), p. 35
“Autumn is a second Spring when every leaf is a flower.”
As quoted in Visions from Earth (2004) by James R. Miller, p. 126
