Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quote

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!


The Lost Star from The Literary Souvenir, 1828 - The Vow of the Peacock (1835)


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...

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...

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...

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...