Letitia Elizabeth Landon,
Landon in The Juvenile Forget Me Not 1832
(1831)
“ This poem was published again later in Traits and Trial of Early Life, 1836 pp145-146. However, as there are minor variations, the text below is transcribed from F. J. Sypher’s Poems from the Annuals. This poem should have an accompanying plate, "The Dead Robin", painted by H. Thomson, R.A. and engraved by W. Greatbach. THE DEAD ROBIN. IT is dead—it is dead—it will wake no more With the earliest light, as it waked before— And singing, as if it were glad to wake, And wanted our longer sleep to break ”
