“Hope is love's happiness, but not its life;—
How many hearts have nourished a vain flame
In silence and in secret, though they knew
They fed the scorching fire that would consume them!”

—  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Improvisatrice (1824)

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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