Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quote

It was a face, with nothing but the blush
To mark it from the sculptured features round :
As perfect in its beauty ; but the flush
Of earthly warmth and earthly feeling crowned
The master-piece of nature ;— that rich gush
Was from the heart, which thus a language found,
The eloquence of truth and silence ever : —
Words, sighs, and smiles deceive, but blushes never.

(24th December 1825) Metrical Fragments - No.1 Anecdote of Canova (under the pen name Iole) - The London Literary Gazette