(1802-1838 / England)

poet Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Quotations

  • ''Ah tell me not that memory
    Sheds gladness o'er the past;
    What is recalled by faded flowers
    Save that they did not last?''
    Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838), British poet, novelist. Despondency.
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The Power of Words

'Tis a strange mystery, the power of words!
Life is in them, and death. A word can send
The crimson colour hurrying to the cheek.
Hurrying with many meanings; or can turn
The current cold and deadly to the heart.
Anger and fear are in them; grief and joy
Are on their sound; yet slight, impalpable:--
A word is but a breath of passing air.

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