Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“ When those sweet eyes will seek the ground,
Or, raised, will only seek to see,
What language, till that hour unknown,
In other eyes can be.
That cheek will wear a deeper rose,
Whose crimson colours never glow
But when they speak instead of words,
For the full heart below.
Pause lady, on thy present time,
It is life's brightest and its best;
Pause ere thou lettest love disturb
Thy spirit's sunny rest.
For never yet came Love alone,
Companions strange and sad has he,
Doubts, fears, regrets, and withering tears;—
And must these be for thee? ”

“ Vigils the heart's penance keeping;
Shedding tears, that while they fall,
Are ashamed to weep at all.
There are darker hours in store,
Loving—yet beloved no more.
When the lover's heart is changed,
And the lover's eye has ranged. ”

“ And so was every tree,
On every bough there was a bud,
In every bud a bee.
And life hath such a gladdening power
Thus in its joy arrayed,
The God who made the world so fair,
Must love what he has made. ”