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Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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“I will not seek the battle-field — The men I there should meet, What have they done to me to make Shedding their life-blood sweet ? It is the veriest madness man In maddest mood can frame, To feed the earth with human gore, And then to call it fame. I have been wrong'd ; but were my wrong The deadliest wrong ere done, I would not slay my enemy, But bid him still live on :— And I should deem my vengeance more Than the death-wound in strife— What ills can death inflict like those Heap'd on each hour of life ?”
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Recorded in: (19th August 1826) Metrical Fragments - No. 1 (under the pen name Iole)
“Harsh all earth's destinies, — but his most hard Who may not trust the praise he loves to hear — Who may not hold his fame sure till, too late, The seal of death and truth is set by fate.”
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“She spoke, they were but a few hurried words — Of the sweet flowers around, the heat, the night — Yet were they such as the blest heart records For many an after-moment's long delight ; They touch'd upon his spirit's inmost chords ; Though broken was the sense, the accents light, Yet sweeter was to him that tremulous tone Than all that eloquence were proud to own.”
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Recorded in: (26th August 1826) Metrical Fragments No. II. Tasso’s last interview with the Princess Leonora. (under the pen name Iole)
“He leapt upon his steed, and like the wind They speed them on ; at first his giddy brain Swam like a chaos— mystery of the mind Which would guide its own workings, but in vain :”
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“He enter'd now the garden, and a fall Of singing, voice and lute, sank on his ear : At first it seem'd thrice sweet and musical, But it grew sadder as he came more near.”
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Recorded in: (9th September 1826) Metrical Fragments No. IV. - The Redeemed Captive (under the pen name Iole)
“The Dead ! the Dead ! and sleep they here, The lost of other years — The Dead ! the Dead ! can they be here, Where nought of Death appears ?”
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Recorded in: (7th October 1826) The Tumuli
“Leaves grow green to fall, Flowers grow fair to fade, Fruits grow ripe to rot — All but for passing made.”
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Recorded in: (14th October 1826) Changes
“A thousand songs from a thousand boughs The glad birds' pleasure declare ; The rills are laughing in crystal light— For the presence of Spring is there.”
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Recorded in: (3rd March 1827) Birthday in Spring
“Spirit of the midnight dream, What is now upon thy wing ? Earth sleeps in the moonlight beam ; O'er that sleep what wilt thou fling ?”
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Recorded in: (31st March 1827) The Spirit of Dreams
“Glory of earth, and light from heaven, Young Genius ! but for thee, And the wild wonders to thee given, How base our earth would be !”
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Recorded in: (19th May 1827) Genius
“Death came like a friend to restore thee To those who had died before thee: Father, mother, Sister, brother— There were none of these to mourn o'er thee. But now that Death has found thee, Thy kindred and friends are round thee ; In their rest they are laid In the dark yew shade, And cold sleep like their own has bound thee.”
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Recorded in: (18th August 1827) Euthanasia
“One of those gifted ones that walk the earth, Like angels in their beauty, and the while The air is filled with music from their wings.”
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Recorded in: (31st January 1829) Lines to the Author after Reading the Sorrows of Rosalie
“. . . Oh! the heart Makes its own happiness, perchance the best, When consecrate to one engrossing love !”
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“The shade fell darker from the clustering vine, Whose green boughs twined the lattice like a wreath ; The lark had ceased the musical glad laugh With which he hails the morning; note by note The matin song had died upon the wind; The dew which hung upon the cypresses Had turned to sunshine on the waving leaves;—”
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Recorded in: (14th February 1829) Lines on Newton’s Picture of the Disconsolate
“We say that people and that things are changed; Alas ! it is ourselves that change : the heart Makes all around the mirror of itself.”
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“Where are the flowers, the beautiful flowers, That haunted your homes and your hearts in the spring ? Where is the sunshine of earlier hours ? Where is the music the birds used to bring ?”
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Recorded in: (9th May 1829) Change
“Weep for life, with its toil and care, Its crime to shun, and its sorrow to bear ; Let tears and the sign of tears be shed Over the living, not over the dead !”
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Recorded in: (21st August 1830) The Legacy of the Roses
“Its berries are red as a maiden's lip, Its leaves are of changeless green ; And any thing changeless now, I wis, Is somewhat rare to be seen. The holly, which fall and frost has borne, The holly's the wreath for a Christmas morn.”
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Recorded in: (1st January 1831) Christmas Carol
“Let the rose fall, another rose Will bloom upon the self-same tree ; Let the bird die, ere evening close Some other bird will sing for me. It is for the beloved to love, 'Tis for the happy to be kind ; Sorrow will more than death remove The associate links affections bind.”
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Recorded in: (2nd April 1831) Lines Supposed to be the Prayer of the Supplicating Nymph in Mr. Lawrence Macdonald’s Exhibition of Sculptures
“Black (for such the quarries yield Where the sun hath never shone, Which night only rests upon, Was the marble floor, which gave Mirror like some clear dark wave.”
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“Statues to whose rest seem'd given Not the life of earth but heaven ; For each statue here enshrined What in the immortal mind Makes its beauty and its power — Genius's eternal dower :”
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Recorded in: (25th June 1831) The Hall of Statues
“His heart is like a maggot-eaten nut: There's nothing in it ; but 'tis closely shut.”
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Recorded in: (1st October 1831) Epigram of a Miser
“Now out upon you, Christmas ! Is this the merry time When the red hearth blazed, the harper sung, And the bells rung their glorious chime ? . . .”
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“I saw an aged woman turn To her wretched home again — All day she had asked charity, And all day asked in vain. . . .”
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“Is this the curse that is laid on the earth ? And must it ever be so, That there can be nothing of human good But must from some evil flow ? . . .”
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“Then out on the folly of ancient times— The folly which wished you mirth : Look round on the anguish, look round on the vice, Then dare to be glad upon earth !”
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Recorded in: (14th January 1832) Christmas extracts
“The poets told thy birth Was welcomed upon earth By the sweet multitude of shining flowers, By bursting buds, green leaves, and sunny hours.”
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“They know there must be May within the year, Else would they never dream that May was here.”
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Recorded in: (12th May 1832) Our Present May
“Glorious and beautiful Were youth's feeling and youth's thought— Would that we did not annul All that in us then was wrought ! Would their influence could remain When the hope and dream depart ; Would we might through life retain Still some youth within the heart !”
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Recorded in: (11th August 1832) Youth
“Our sky has lost another star, The earth has claimed its own, And into dread eternity A glorious one is gone. He who could give departed things So much of light and breath, He is himself now with the past — Gone forth from life to death.”
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Recorded in: (29th September 1832) On the death of Sir Walter Scott
“Does the sweet morning rise, Bride-like, from sleep, When their first revelries Bird and bee keep, Singing out joyously In the green tree ? Then, when my hopes are high, Think I of thee.”
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Recorded in: (5th January 1833) Songs
“Deep in the silent waters, A thousand fathoms low, A gallant ship lies perishing — She foundered long ago.”
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Recorded in: (12th January 1833) The Lost Ship
“The clouds, and not the stars, to them The omen and the sign be given— The clouds, the vapours of our soil, Not stars, whose element is heaven. The deepening shade, the flitting light, Mark what each coming month will know— The passing joy, the constant care, Of life's sad pilgrimage below.”
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“Those cheerful bells, how can they bid A welcome to the new-born Year? I think on what the past has been ; I cannot hope—I only fear.”
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Recorded in: (4th January 1834) The New Year
“And there the lovely Lily grew, The summer's purest flower, And many a tiny fairy knew The shelter of its bower,”
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Recorded in: (7th June 1834) The History of the Lily
“It is a fact not to be disputed, that the aristocracy have not "progressed " in proportion to the other classes. A young nobleman of the present day has not a better education than his ancestor in the time of Elizabeth.”
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“Literary taste is often confounded with literary talent by others, quite as much as by ourselves.”
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“Ridicule is the re-action of enthusiasm. Sentiment was considered confined to schools ; and, so far from affecting too much feeling, people were beginning to be ashamed of having any.”
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“Life has little breathing time ; and, even when we do for a moment reflect, it is rather on our present than our past : the pains and pleasures of memory are put aside as quickly as the poem which celebrates them.”
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“But wit cuts its bright way through the glass-door of public favour;”
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“But preference, and its consequence, neglect, is the child's most cruel wrong. The bitter feeling of comparing our own lot with another's, will come quite soon enough without its being taught in infancy.”
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“It is curious to observe how little one period resembles another. Centuries are the children of one mighty family, but here is no family-likeness between them.”
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“The imagination, which is the source of poetry, has in every country been the beginning as well as the ornament of civilization. It civilizes because it refines.”
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“We deny that poetry is fiction; its merit and its power lie alike in its truth:”
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“There is a favourite in every family; and, generally speaking, that favourite is the most troublesome member in it.”
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“He had married for love, under the frequent delusion of supposing that love will last under every circumstance most calculated to destroy it ; and, secondly, that it can supply the place of everything else.”
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“Other sorrows soften the heart, — poverty hardens it. Nothing like poverty for chilling the affections and repressing the spirits. Its annoyances are all of the small and mean order ; its regrets all of a selfish kind ; its presence is perpetual ; and the scant meal, and the grudged fire, are repeated day by day, yet who can become accustomed to them ?”
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“A woman always exaggerates her beauty and its influence when they are past ; and it was a perpetual grief to think what her pretty face might have done for her.”
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“Everybody has some particular point on which they pique themselves ; generally something which ill deserves the pride bestowed upon it.”
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“She had always thought she would be like her father, and fancied a tall, dark, and handsome face.”
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