Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quote

Ah! love is even more fragile than its gifts!
A tress of raven hair:—oh, only those
Whose souls have felt this one idolatry
Can tell how precious is the slightest thing
Affection gives and hallows.


The Improvisatrice (1824)


Ah! love is even more fragile than its gifts! A tress of raven hair:—oh, only those Whose souls have felt this one idolatry Can tell how precious...

Ah! love is even more fragile than its gifts! A tress of raven hair:—oh, only those Whose souls have felt this one idolatry Can tell how precious...

Ah! love is even more fragile than its gifts! A tress of raven hair:—oh, only those Whose souls have felt this one idolatry Can tell how precious...

Ah! love is even more fragile than its gifts! A tress of raven hair:—oh, only those Whose souls have felt this one idolatry Can tell how precious...