Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quote

She spoke, they were but a few hurried words —
Of the sweet flowers around, the heat, the night —
Yet were they such as the blest heart records
For many an after-moment's long delight ;
They touch'd upon his spirit's inmost chords ;
Though broken was the sense, the accents light,
Yet sweeter was to him that tremulous tone
Than all that eloquence were proud to own.

(26th August 1826) Metrical Fragments No. II. Tasso's last interview with the Princess Leonora. (under the pen name Iole) - The London Literary Gazette