Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Name: Landon in The Literary Gazette 1830
Author: Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Landon in The Literary Gazette 1830 (1830)

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“Landon in The Literary Gazette 1830”, published in 1830, is a work by Letitia Elizabeth Landon. It explores elements such as The Vow of the Peacock, bloom and yield.

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Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Landon in The Literary Gazette 1830 (1830)

“ You may leave the far vale and the mountain behind;
Like the storm o'er the south in thy flight thou may'st be;
But where may'st thou fly from the memory of me?
The struggle, the pleasure, the toil, and the strife,
May fill up thy days with the hurry of life;
But night cometh lonely o'er land and o'er sea,
And in silence and shadow I still am with thee.
With no rose on my cheek, with no rose in my hair,
But cold as the love whose remembrance I bear,
Breathing vows that are broken, and hopes that are fled,
A voice breaks thy slumber—the voice of the dead. ”

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Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Landon in The Literary Gazette 1830 (1830)

“ We plant pale flowers beside the tomb,
And love to see them droop and fade;
For every leaf that sheds its bloom
Seems like a natural tribute paid.
Thus Nature soothes the grief she shares:
What are the flowers we hold most dear? ”

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Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Landon in The Literary Gazette 1830 (1830)

“ Our blow be as one when we rush on the line;
Should one fall, one only, the other will try
A step for his vengeance, another to die—
On the neck of the fallen yield up his last breath,
And the vow of their boyhood be cancelled by death. ”

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Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Landon in The Literary Gazette 1830 (1830)

“ That belonged to other days,
Ere I marked the stern revealings
Of the curtain time must raise.
When my heart and step were lighter
Than they'll ever be again,
And the dream of hope was brighter—
For I believed it then. ”

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Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Landon in The Literary Gazette 1830 (1830)

“ The flush upon my cheek;
My languid pulse, my failing breath,
More weary and more weak.
Ah! little should she think of love
Whose steps are on the grave;
Of love, the almighty to destroy,
The powerless to save. ”

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Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Landon in The Literary Gazette 1830 (1830)

“ For those who claim her hand.
Her eyes fill with unbidden tears,
Her cheek is pale with care—
Lonely amid the festival,
For her heart is not there.
She broods above her own dear thoughts,
As o'er her nest the dove ”

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Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Landon in The Literary Gazette 1830 (1830)

“ Fling back thy clustering hair;
It is a happiness to gaze
On any thing so fair.
'Tis such spring-morning loveliness—
The blushing and the bright—
Beneath whose sway, unconsciously,
The heaviest heart grows light. ”

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Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Landon in The Literary Gazette 1830 (1830)

“ I list not to speak now of those.
Through the crimson blind steals forth the splendour
Of lamps, like large pearls which some fay
Has swelled with her breath till their lustre,
If more soft, is as bright as of day. ”

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Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Landon in The Literary Gazette 1830 (1830)

“ Follow me!—'tis to the battle-field—
No eye must turn, and no step must yield;
In the thick of the battle look ye to be:
On!—'tis my banner ye follow, and me.
Follow me!—'tis to the festal ring,
Where the maidens smile and the minstrels sing ”

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Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Landon in The Literary Gazette 1830 (1830)

“ The quiet of the evening hour
Was laid on every summer leaf;
That purple shade was on each flower,
At once so beautiful, so brief,
Only the aspen knew not rest,
But still, with an unquiet song,
Kept murmuring to the gentle west,
And cast a changeful shade along. ”

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Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Landon in The Literary Gazette 1830 (1830)

“ Let strangers, too, share in their breath and their bloom—
Plant ye the bright roses over my tomb!
⁠L. E. L.
† A person who died at Barnes left an annual sum to be laid out in roses planted on his grave: authority, Mr. Crofton Croker. ”

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Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Landon in The Literary Gazette 1830 (1830)

“ Is an earnest what all pleasures seem—
A few eager hours' enjoyment—
A toil, a regret, and a dream!
⁠L. E. L.
↑ This poem appears in The Vow of the Peacock, and Other Poems (1835) with some verses omitted and other alterations. ”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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