Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“ The sands, thy heart, alike have lost
The name I trusted to their care;
And passing waves, and worldly thoughts,
Effaced what once was written there.
Woe, for the false sands! and worse woe,
That thou art falsest of the twain! ”

“ I wrote my name upon the sand;
I thought I wrote it on thine heart.
I had no touch of fear, that words,
Such words, so graven, could depart. ”