Letitia Elizabeth Landon quotes - page 20

How innocent, how beautiful thy sleep! Sweet one, 'tis peace and joy to gaze on thee! (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
The sweetest and best qualities of our nature may be turned to evil, by the strong force of circumstance and of temptation. View quote
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He loves not, he loves me, he loves me not, He loves me, - yes, thou last leaf, yes, I'll pluck thee not, for that last sweet guess! " He loves me,”. View quote
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A light is gone from yonder sky, A star has left its sphere; The beautiful--and do they die In yon bright world as here? Will that star leave a lonely place, A darkness on the night?- No; few will miss its lovely face, And none think heaven less bright! View quote
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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! View quote
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It is the mistake of a coxcomb, whose experience of affection is all to come-if it ever comes-to say that women are won by mere good looks. Though it does not owe its birth to them. Gratitude and Vanity are the nurses that rock the cradle of Love. View quote
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Expectation makes a long delay. View quote
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Happiness! pleasure I should rather say, Happiness never made on earth a stay. View quote
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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.... View quote
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How many are there who live eleven months on the hope of the twelfth given to some brief but delightful wandering. View quote
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Methinks we must have known some former state More glorious than our present, and the heart Is haunted with dim memories, shadows left By past magnificence; and hence we pine With vain aspirings, hopes that fill the eyes With bitter tears for their own vanity. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
Great Heaven! what vain beliefs Have stirred the pulse and led the hopes of man! As if that honour could be bought by blood, And that the fierce right hand was better worth Than the fine mind, and high and generous heart! View quote
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Out on the heartless creed which nulls the claim Upon the heart of kindred, birth, and name. View quote
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How many glorious structures we had raised Upon Hope's sandy basis! View quote
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A single grave! -the only one In this unbroken ground, Where yet the garden leaf and flower Are lingering around. View quote
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There are remembrances that will not vanish,- Thoughts of the past we would but cannot banish: As if to show how impotent mere will, We loathe the pang, and yet must suffer still: For who is there can say they will forget? -It is a power no science teaches yet. View quote
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Well, read my cheek, and watch my eye,- Too strictly school'd are they, One secret of my soul to show, One hidden thought betray. View quote
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The bright cloud shone on the river's face, But the death-black waters had not a trace Of the crimson blaze that over them play'd : It seem'd as if a curse were laid On the grass, on the river, the tree, and the flower, And shut them out from the sunbeam's power. View quote
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No man ever enters into the feelings of a woman, let his kindness be what it may; they are too subtle and too delicate for a hand whose grasp is on "life's rougher things." They require that sorrow should find a voice; now the most soothing sympathy is that which guesses the suffering without a question. View quote
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[Julian - disguised] The hunter turns not Despairing from the chase because the deer Flies from his pursuit : every obstacle Becomes a pleasure. View quote
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Egmont: Love is not A bird of prey, to pay the hunter's toil - He is best won by those who seek him not. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
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! View quote
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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. View quote
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O! the heart has all too many tears; But none are like those that wait On the blighted love, the loneliness Of the young orphan's fate. View quote
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She is but the type of all, Mortal or celestial, Who allow the heart, In its passion and its power, On some dark and fated hour, To assert its part. View quote
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