Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

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—music's power
Is little felt in sunlit hour;
But hear its voice when hopes depart,
Like swallows, flying from the heart
On which the summer's late decline
Has set a sadness and a sign;......
How deeply will the spirit feel
The lute, the song's sweet-voiced appeal;
And how the heart drink in their sighs
As echoes they from Paradise.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The bride was young and beautiful, the bridegroom stern and old,—
But the silken rein was hung with pearls, the housings bright with gold.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
How can they say confiding is relief?
Light are the woes that to the eyelids spring,
Subdued and soften'd by the tears they bring;
But there are some too long, too well conceal'd,
Too deeply felt,—that are but once reveal'd:
Like the withdrawing of the mortal dart,
And then the life-blood follows from the heart;
Sorrow, before unspoken by a sigh,
But which, once spoken, only hath to die.—

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.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Alas ! alas ! too often conscience sleeps,
When pleasure's syren numbers lull its rest.—

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Yet gazed MANDALLA on the square
As she he sought still glided there,—
Oh that fond look, whose eyeballs' strain,
And will not know its look is vain!
At length he turned,—his silent mood
Sought that impassioned solitude,
The Eden of young hearts, when first
Love in its loneliness is nurst.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon