Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“ The Edinburgh Literary Journal, Vol.4, 25th December 1830, page 391
STANZAS.
By Miss Landon.
⁠———Oh, never did the sky,
Colour’d with sunset, wear so many hues
As the heart wears, fill'd with the changeful thoughts
That haunt its loneliness!
I pray thee, do not speak to me
Of any other hour,—
The past, for that can never be
Again within my power.
The future—what avails to raise
A world we cannot guide?
Our coming, like our former days,
Will roll a mingled tide.
Life but repeats its joy or pain—
Rebuilds its shrine o'erthrown ”