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Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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“But our bird knew not of the free blue air, He had lived in his cage, and his home was there : No flight had he in the green wood flown — He pined not for freedom he never had known ! If he had lived amid leaf and bough It had been cruel to fetter him now ; For I have seen a poor bird die, And all for love of his native sky.”
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“How sweet on the breeze of the evening swells The vesper call of those soothing bells, Borne softly and dying in echoes away, Like a requiem sung to the parting day.”
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Recorded in: (22nd September 1821) Bells
“He must be rich whom I could love, His fortune clear must be, Whether in land or in the funds, 'Tis all the same to me.”
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Recorded in: (10th November 1821) Six Songs of Love, Constancy, Romance, Inconstancy, Truth, and Marriage - 'Matrimonial Creed
“Then gaze not on other eyes, Love ; Breathe not other sighs, Love ; You may find many a brighter one Than your own rose, but there are none So true to thee, Love.”
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Recorded in: (5th January 1822) Song ("Are other eyes beguiling, Love?")
“These are thy bridal flowers I am now wreathing; This is thy marriage hymn I am now breathing.”
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Recorded in: (12th January 1822) Sketch the first ("There are dark yew-trees gathered round, beneath")
“The path was new, and there was thrown A sweet veil over pleasure's ray ; But ignorance is happiness, When young Hope is to show the way;”
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Recorded in: (12th January 1822) Ten Years Ago.
“A blossom full of promise is life's joy, That never comes to fruit; hope, for a time, Suns the young floweret in its gladsome light, And it looks flourishing—a little while, Tis past, we know not whither, but 'tis gone—”
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Recorded in: (19th January 1822) Poetic Sketches, No.2
“Oh, blessedness ! To see the fair creations of the thought Assume a visible form ; sweet Poesy ! How witching is thy power upon the heart ; Enchantment that does bind our senses up In one unutterable influence ; A charmed spell set over every thought, Till life's whole hope is cast upon the lyre.”
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Recorded in: (26th January 1822) Poetic Sketches, No.3
“One rich light Broke thro' the shadow of the tempest's wing, While the black clouds, with gold and purple edged, Caught every moment warmer hues, until 'Twas all one sparkling arch, and, like a king In triumph o'er his foes, the Sun god sought The blue depths of the sea ; — the waters yet Were ruffled with the storm, and the white foam Yet floated on the billows, while the wind Murmured at times like to an angry child, Who sobs even in his slumber.”
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Recorded in: (2nd February 1822) Poetic Sketches, No.4
“Down swept the gathered waters over rocks Which broke at times the column's foaming line ; Darkening amid the snow-white froth, it swept Like an all conquering army, and an arch Of sparkling hues that in the sunbeams played Seemed to unite it with the sky which hung Above all calmness and repose :”
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Recorded in: (16th February 1822) Poetic Sketches, No.6
“Ah, deeply the Minstrel has felt all he sings, Every passion he paints his own bosom has known ; No note of wild music is swept from the strings, But first his own feelings have echoed the tone.”
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Recorded in: (27th April 1822) The Poet
“We met in secret : mystery is to love Like perfume to the flower ; the maiden's blush Looks loveliest when her cheek is pale with fear.”
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Recorded in: (18th May 1822) Poetic Sketches. Second Series - Sketch the Third. Rosalie
“It was a beautiful embodied thought, A dream of the fine painter, one of those That pass by moonlight o'er the soul, and flit 'Mid the dim shades of twilight, when the eye Grows tearful with its ecstasy.”
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Recorded in: (1st June 1822) Poetic Sketches. Second Series - Sketch the Fifth. Mr. Martin’s Picture of Clytie
“Look upon that hour-marked round, Listen to that fateful sound ; There my silent hand is stealing. My more silent course revealing ; Wild, devoted Pleasure, hear, — Stay thee on thy mad career !”
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Recorded in: (27th July 1822) Sketches from Drawings by Mr. Dagley. Sketch the First. Time arresting the Career of Pleasure.
“Thrice venomed is the wound when 'tis Love's hand Inflicts the blow.”
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Recorded in: (3rd August 1822) Sketches from Drawings by Mr. Dagley. Sketch the Second. Love touching the Horns of a Snail, which is shrinking from his hand.
“The Painter's skill has seized a moment where Her hand is wreathing mid his raven hair; And he is bent in worship, as that touch, That soft light touch, were ecstasy too much. He is just turned from that bewildering face To the fair arm that holds the magic vase — The purple liquor is just sparkling up — The youth has pledged his heart's truth on that cup!”
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Recorded in: (10th August 1822) Sketches from Drawings by Mr. Dagley. Sketch the Third. The Cup of Circe
“A light compliment was never yet breathed by love.”
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“A man above thirty cannot enter into the wild visions of an enthusiastic girl.”
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“Love has no power to look forward — the delicious consciousness of the present, a faint but delightful shadow of the past, form its eternity.”
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Recorded in: (18th August 1822) These from a prose sketch - Isadore
“Alas, the strange varieties or life ! We live 'mid perils and pleasures, like Characters 'graven on the sand, or hues Colouring the rainbow. Wild as a sick fancy And changeful as a maiden, is this dream, This brief dream on earth - - - -”
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Recorded in: (7th September 1822) Poetical Sketches. Third series - Sketch the First. The Mine
“My heart is with thee, Iove ! though now Thou'rt far away from me : I envy even my own thoughts, For they may fly to thee.”
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Recorded in: (19th October 1822) Songs of Absence
“[Julian - disguised] The hunter turns not Despairing from the chase because the deer Flies from his pursuit : every obstacle Becomes a pleasure.”
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“[Julian - disguised] Oh, jealousy is but A shadow cast from vanity, which lain Would take the shape of love to hide its own Selfish deformity !”
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“[Julian] Why did I try a faith I should have known Spotless as the white dove. I cannot feel The beating of her heart. I'll kiss the colour Back to her cheek. Oh, God ! her lip is ice — There is no breath upon it ! — AGNES, thy JULIAN is thy murderer !”
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Recorded in: (26th October 1822) Dramatic Scene I
“Words are powerless to tell. — Such the image in my heart, — Painter, try thy glorious art !”
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Recorded in: (16th November 1822) Fragments in Rhyme III: Outline for a Portrait
“Never day-beam hath shone o'er Lovelier or wilder shore ! Half was land, and half was sea Where the eye could only see The blue sky for boundary.”
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Recorded in: (30th November 1822) Fragments in Rhyme V: the Happy Isle
“There is a flower, a magical flower, On which love hath laid a fairy power ; Gather it on the eve of St. John, When the clock of the village is tolling one ; Let no look be turned, no word be said, And lay the rose-leaves under your head ; Your sleep will be light, and pleasant your rest, For your visions will be of the youth you love best.”
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Recorded in: (28th December 1822) Fragments in Rhyme X: The Eve of St. John
“Oh this is not that sweet love Own companion to the dove ; But a wild and wandering thing, Varying as the lights that fling Radiance o'er his peacock's wing. I do weep, that Love should be Ever linked with Vanity.”
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Recorded in: (25th January 1823) Medallion Wafers: Cupid Riding on a Peacock
“Dark night, Oh terrible is thy shadow on the battle ! Blows dealt alike on friend and foe, the dead , And dying trampled on— oh, day alone Should look upon the soldier's deeds !”
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Recorded in: (1st February 1823) The Cadets. An Indian Sketch
“Glorious Bard ! to whom belong Wreaths not often claimed by song, Those hung round the warrior's shield— Laurels from the blood-red field.”
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Recorded in: (8th February 1823) Medallion Wafers: Head of Tyrtëus
“She held the cup ; and he the while Sat gazing on her playful smile, As all the wine he wished to sip Was one kiss from her rosebud lip.”
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Recorded in: (8th February 1823) Medallion Wafers: Hercules and Iole
“Pictures, bright pictures, oh ! they are to me A world for thought to revel in. I love To give a history to every face, to think — As I thought with the painter — as I knew What his high communing had been.”
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“Ah, Woman has no look so sweet As that, when, half afraid to meet The look she loves, blushes betray All the suppressed glance would say.”
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Recorded in: (15th March 1823) Poetical Catalogue of Pictures. Vandyke consulting his Mistress on a Picture in Cooke's Exhibition.
“Sweet Hope ! every pleasant flower Suns itself in thy glad power ; Every sorrow comes to thee, Desart fount for Misery !”
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Recorded in: (15th March 1823) Poetical Catalogue of Pictures. Hope, from a design by a Lady.
“Thou shalt bid thy fair hands rove O'er thy soft lute's silver slumbers, Waking sounds; of song and love In their sweet Italian numbers.”
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Recorded in: (29th March 1823) Song - I'll meet thee at the midnight hour
“All over the world with thee, my love ! All over the world with thee ; I care not what sky may low'r above, Or how dark our path may be.”
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Recorded in: (29th March 1823) Song - All over the world with thee, my love !
“The dream on the pillow, That flits with the day, The leaf of the willow A breath wears away; The dust on the blossom, The spray on the sea; Ay,—ask thine own bosom— Are emblems of thee.”
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Recorded in: (29th March 1823) Song - The dream on the pillow.
“What was our parting ?—one wild kiss, How wild I may not say, One long and breathless clasp, and then As life were past away.”
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Recorded in: (29th March 1823) Song - What was our parting ?—one wild kiss,
“For many years he has not breathed the air, The wholesome open air ; the sun, the moon, The stars, the clouds, the fair blue heaven, the spring, The flowers, the trees, and the sweet face of man, Song, or words yet more musical than song, Affections, feelings, social intercourse (Unless remembered in his fairy dreams) Have all been strangers to his solitude ! — A curse is set on him, like poverty, Or leprosy, or the red plague, but worse, — The heart has sent its fire up to the brain, And he is mad.”
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Recorded in: (5th April 1823) Poetical Catalogue of Pictures. A Maniac visited by his Family in confinement : by Davis.
“[From Ianthe] I am a miser Of all thy thoughts and words, and looks and feelings— Oh, I am jealous of a leaf, a flower, A song, a star, if much thought on by thee !”
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“[Guido] Oh, my Ianthe, I live but in you, And I will win thee, through each obstacle By tyranny of fortune raised, my own, My best heart's treasure ! (he snatches her hand) [Manfred] Wild fool ! she is your sister !”
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Recorded in: (12th April 1823) Dramatic Scene. Ianthe — Guido — Manfred.
“Do any thing but love ; or if thou lovest And art a Woman, hide thy love from him Who thou dost worship ; never let him know How dear he is ; flit like a bird before him, — Lead him from tree to tree, from flower to flower ; But be not won, or thou wilt, like that bird, When caught and caged, be left to pine neglected, And perish in forgetfulness.”
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Recorded in: (26th April 1823) Fragment - Do any thing but love ; or if thou lovest
“Beautiful and radiant May, Is not this thy festal day ? Is not this spring revelry Held in honour, Queen, of thee ?”
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Recorded in: (3rd May 1823) Poetical Catalogue of Paintings - On May-day, by Leslie
“Wouldst thou know what life should be? Were it mine but to decree What its path should be for Thee ? Look upon those sister powers, Chained, but only chained with flowers, — That bright group of rose-winged Hours”
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Recorded in: (3rd May 1823) Poetical Catalogue of Paintings - The Hours, by Howard.
“On a bough, The only one chained by the honeysuckle, Sat two white Doves, upon each neck a tint Like the rose-stain within the delicate shell Of the sea-pearl, as Love breathed on their plumes. And each was mirror'd in the other's eyes, Floating and dark, a paradise of passion.”
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Recorded in: (10th May 1823) Poetical Catalogue of Paintings - Two Doves in a Grove. Mr. Glover's Exhibition.
“There is no tie Like that last holiest link of love, which binds The lonely child to its more lonely parent.”
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Recorded in: (5th July 1823) A Tale Founded on Fact
“Beauty should be around the beautiful.”
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“A soft and blue Italian sky, — the blue That painters and that poets love, — the blue The lover worships in the maiden's eyes, Whose beauty is their power and spell.”
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“And round the walls were Pictures : some calm scenes Of Earth's green loveliness, and some whose hues Were caught from faces in whose smile our life Is one of Paradise ; and Statues, whose white grace Is as a dream of poetry.”
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“Oh Genius! fling aside thy starry crown, Close up thy rainbow wings, and on thy head Lay dust and ashes — for, this cold drear world Is but thy prison-house. Alas for him Who has thy dangerous gifts, for they are like The fatal ones that evil spirits give, — Bright and bewildering, leading unto death.”
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Recorded in: (26th July 1823) The Artist’s Studio