“Statues but known from shapes of the earth,
By being too lovely for mortal birth;
Paintings whose colours of life were caught
From the fairy tints in the rainbow wrought;
Music whose sighs had a spell like those
That float on the sea at the evening’s close
Language so silvery, that every word
Was like the lute’s awakening chord;”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Title Poem
The Improvisatrice (1824)

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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