Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

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Merciful God, thou dost not answer me !
I made my choice on earth, and now my heart
Has no asylum. Ye decide for me,
And such a destiny is best.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I believe that travelling is as much a passion as love, poetry, or ambition.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
There is an antique gem, on which her brow
Retains its graven beauty even now.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
A woman whose lover resigns her, and as if for her own sake, though without consulting her, is placed in a most awkward situation. What can she do ? Take him at his word ? That is easy to say, but hard to do, when all the hopes and affections are garnered in his love.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The voyage appeared short, for I had nothing to anticipate.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
There is one conviction at which, though forced upon us by daily experience, we never arrive, namely, the conviction that Nobody in reality cares for Anybody; but this truth is so cold that we fence it out by all sorts of cloaks and coverings, delusions and devices.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Yes, solitude amid her depths has many a hidden balm
Guarded for those who leave her not, to strengthen and to calm.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
For human tears are lava-drops,
That scorch and wither as they flow;
Then let them flow for those who live,
And not for those who sleep below.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The Lake was that deep blue, which night
Wears in the zenith moon's full light;
With pebbles shining thro', like gems
Lighting sultana's diadems :

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I may be kind,
And meet with kindness, yet be lonely still;
For gratitude is not companionship.—

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Remembrance makes the poet; 'tis the past
Lingering within him, with a keener sense
Than is upon the thoughts of common men
Of what has been, that fills the actual world
With unreal likenesses of lovely shapes,
That were and are not; and the fairer they,
The more their contrast with existing things,
The more his power, the greater is his grief.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
But youth is as a flowing stream, on whose current the shadow may rest but not remain.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
There is a steep and lofty wall,
Where my warders trembling stand,
He who at speed shall ride round its height,
For him shall be my hand.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
English people... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
It was his last, his only field:
They brought him back upon his shield,
But victory was won.
I cannot weep when I recall
Thy land has cause to bless thy fall.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The twilight, when our earth seems blending
Its human passion with the skies;
And rosy clouds, above ascending,
Wear mortal colours while they rise,
Till, purified, they disappear
Amid the high pale atmosphere.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The weakness of our nature—how soon any strong emotion masters it !

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
A louder sweep the music gave :
The chieftain of the charmed wave,
Graceful upon his steed of snow,
Rises from his blue halls below ;
And rode he like a victor-knight
Thrice glorious in his arms of light.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
She had always thought she would be like her father, and fancied a tall, dark, and handsome face.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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!

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Rode by radiant shapes that seem
Creatures made of bloom and beam,
With their hair and plumes' gay dyes
Glorious as the morning skies.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Clara:
Neighbours, dear friends, ye dream, ye dream : awake!
Gaze not on me with sadly wondering eyes,
I only bid you to your actual wish.
My voice is but the voice of your own hearts.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Emily heard a great deal of conversation, of which conceit was the canvas, while flattery laid on the colors.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon