Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth14 August 1802
wise advice easy
there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.
heart fate winning
And this is woman's fate: all her affections are called into life by winning flatteries, and then thrown back upon themselves to perish; and her heart, her trusting heart, filled with weak tenderness, is left to bleed or break!
summer flower eye
Eyes that droop like summer flowers.
eye heart dark
The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.
heart my-heart graves
My heart is its own grave!
long faces actors
Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?
heart flames ashes
Oh, no! my heart can never be Again in lightest hopes the same; The love that lingers there for thee Hath more of ashes than of flame.
winning loses
So much to win, so much to lose, No marvel that I fear to choose.
ignorance way young
But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way
flower violet
I do love violets; they tell the history of woman's love.
sweeping assertion
All sweeping assertions are erroneous.
kindness sometimes praise
Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.
sleep heart tears
My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping.
strong men despair
Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.