The Poetical Works of Letitia Elizabeth Landon: The improvisatrice. Tales and miscellaneous poems. Fragments. BalladsLongman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1844 |
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AMENAÏDE ANCESTRESS ancient galleries AREZZI beauty beneath BERTHA boughs bow'd breath bright brow caught chords cold Count crimson curse CYRENE CYRIS dark dark eye deep dream dwell earth face fair fairy fairy tale fate fear feelings fill'd fling flowers flung fountain gather'd gaze gentle grave grief hair hall happiness hath haunted heart heaven hope hopes and fears hour Italie JAROMIR laburnum leant LEITRA LEONI LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON life's light lonely lonely tree look look'd loveliness lute lyre maiden mind misery MONT BLANC morning night o'er pale pass'd passionate Pleiad poet's rose round seem'd shade shadow shrine sigh sleep smile solitude song sorrow sought speak spirit spring starry stars summer sweet tears thee thine thou art thou hast thoughts thy dreaming to-night touch'd turn'd Twas twill vanity wandering watch'd wave weary weep wild wind words wore young youth
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Page 222 - OH never another dream can be Like that early dream of ours, When the fairy Hope lay down to sleep, Like a child, among the flowers. But Hope has waken'd since, and wept, Like a rainbow, itself away ; And the flowers have faded and fallen around We have none for a wreath to-day. Now Wisdom wakes in the place of Hope, And our hearts are like winter hours : Ah ! after-life has been little worth That early dream of ours.
Page 173 - O'er forehead more divine. The light of midnight's starry heaven Is in those radiant eyes; The rose's crimson life has given That cheek its morning dyes.
Page 78 - Can that man be dead Whose spiritual influence is upon his kind? He lives in glory; and his speaking dust Has more of life than half its breathing moulds.
Page 89 - The more his power, the greater is his grief. — Are we then fallen from some noble star, Whose consciousness is as an unknown curse, And we feel capable of happiness Only to know it is not of our sphere? I have sung passionate songs of beating hearts; Perhaps it had been better they had drawn Their inspiration from an inward source. Had I known even an unhappy love, It would have flung an interest round life Mine never knew.
Page 246 - Pis taught by caution now. I live among the cold, the false, And I must seem like them ; And such I am, for I am false As those I most condemn. I teach my lip its sweetest smile, My tongue its softest tone ; I borrow others' likeness, till Almost I lose my own.
Page 108 - Now 1 have no hope that does not dream for thee ; I have no joy that is not shared by thee ; I have no fear that does not dread for thee. All that I once took pleasure in, — my lute Is only sweet when it repeats thy name ; My flowers, I only gather...
Page 250 - Will the young maiden, when her tears Alone in moonlight shine — Tears for the absent and the loved — Murmur some song of mine ? Will the pale youth by his dim lamp, Himself a dying flame, From many an antique scroll beside, Choose that which bears my name ? T Let music make less terrible The silence of the dead ; I care not, so my spirit last Long after life has fled.
Page 263 - And shadows of long-vanish'd years Are passing sadly o'er me. The friends I loved in early youth, The faithless and forgetting, Whom, though they were not worth my love, I cannot help regretting ; — My feelings, once the kind, the warm, But now the hard, the frozen ; The errors I've too long pursued, The path I should have chosen ; — The hopes that are like...
Page 90 - I have sung passionate songs of beating hearts; Perhaps it had been better they had drawn Their inspiration from an inward source. Had I known even an unhappy love, It would have flung an interest round life Mine never knew. This is an empty wish; Our feelings are not fires to light at will Our nature's fine and subtle mysteries; We may control them, but may not create, And Love less than its fellows.