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And scarce a beech Was there with a honeysuckle link'd Around, with its red tendrils and pink flowers...
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The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.
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Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.
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I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.
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What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions.
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One would think that an unsuccessful volume was like a degree in the school of reviewing. One unread work makes the judge bitter enough; but a second failure, and he is quite desperate in his damnation. I do believe one half of the injustice - the severity of 'the ungentle craft' originates in its own want of success: they cannot forgive the popularity which has passed them over...
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I can pass days
Stretch'd in the shade of those old cedar trees,
Watching the sunshine like a blessing fall,--
The breeze like music wandering o'er the boughs,
Each tree a natural harp,--each different leaf
A different note, blent in one vast thanksgiving.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Born:
August 14, 1802
Died:
October 15, 1838
(aged 36)
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon, English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L. E. L.
Known for:
The Improvisatrice, And Other Poems (1824)
Romance & reality (1831)
The golden violet (1827)
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The troubadour (1825)
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