“And had he not long read
Her heart's hush’d secret in the soft dark eye
Lighted at his approach, and on the cheek
Colouring all crimson at his lightest look?”

—  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Love’s Last Lesson
The Golden Violet (1827)

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Letitia Elizabeth Landon785
English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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“Oh, love is timid in its birth!
Watching her lightest look or stir,
As he but look'd and breathed with her.
Gay words were passing, but he leant
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His secret is no more his own,
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