Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“ Every flower around is rife
With fine poetry for life:
Not a perfumed wreath but brings
Some true feelings on its wings.
On that rosy child await
Rank and sway, and wealth and state;
Sad, too often, is their dower,
Much they need a softening power. ”

“ The plate, which shows a young girl carrying a dog over a streamlet, cannot at
present be sourced.
WET FEET
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds⁠Engraved by C. Rolls
As F. J. Sypher comments, the artist shows the girl with ‘Wet Feet’, whereas, for
Landon, the dog has ‘Dry Feet’.
Text transcribed from F. J. Sypher’s ‘Poems from Annuals’
DRY FEET
You do not like the streamlet,
That runs so clear and bright;
I scarcely think it water,
It looks so much like light. ”