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Letitia Elizabeth Landon war eine britische Dichterin und Romanschriftstellerin. Häufig schrieb die zu ihrer Zeit in Großbritannien wohlbekannte Autorin unter dem Pseudonym ihrer Initialen, L. E. L. Kurz nach ihrer im Juni 1838 zelebrierten Heirat mit George Maclean, dem Gouverneur von Cape Coast Castle, segelte sie mit diesem zu dem in Westafrika gelegenen britischen „Schutzgebiet“, starb dort aber wenige Monate später unter mysteriösen Umständen. Wikipedia  

✵ 14. August 1802 – 15. Oktober 1838
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“It is an unpleasant thing to differ in opinion with the rest of one's species — it is making a sort of North Pole of one's own, and then setting out in search of it.”

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The Monthly Magazine

“I believe that more women are disappointed in marriage than men; a woman gives the whole of her heart — the man only gives the remains of his, and very often there is only a little left. Besides his idol is rarely so much the work of his own hands as her's; at the end of the first year she may ask, where are the picturesque and ennobling qualities with which she invested her lover? in nine cases out of ten echo will indeed answer “where."”

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No.15. Ivanhoe — REBECCA.
Literary Remains

“Love, passionate young Love, how sweet it is
To have the bosom made a Paradise
By thee—life lighted by thy rainbow smile!”

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A Village Tale. from The London Literary Gazette: 6th December 1823 Poetic Sketches. Fourth Series. Sketch IV.
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

“What need hath she
Of shrine to her divinity?
Each fair face is her visible shrine;
She hath been, she will be divine.”

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The Golden Violet - The Queen of Cyprus
The Golden Violet (1827)

“The present—the actual—were they our all—
Too heavy our burthen, too hopeless our thrall;
But heaven, that spreadeth o'er all its blue cope,
Hath given us memory,—hath given us hope!”

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The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

“Time is the great leveller, but he is also the sanctifier and the beautifier.”

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The Monthly Magazine

“And round the walls were Pictures : some calm scenes
Of Earth's green loveliness, and some whose hues
Were caught from faces in whose smile our life
Is one of Paradise; and Statues, whose white grace
Is as a dream of poetry.”

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The London Literary Gazette, 1823

“I know not which is the most fatal gift,
Genius or Love, for both alike are ruled
By stars of bright aspect and evil influence.”

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The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

“Deep in the silent waters,
A thousand fathoms low,
A gallant ship lies perishing —
She foundered long ago.”

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(12th January 1833) The Lost Ship
The London Literary Gazette, 1833-1835

“I dread the pictures of my dreams,
For, then I gaze on thee;
And thou art near, and thou art all
That I would have thee be.
And then I startle from my sleep,
And know all false, and watch and weep.”

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(10th April 1824) Love in Absence
The London Literary Gazette, 1824

“… oh! love will last
When all that made it happiness is past,—
When all its hopes are as the glittering toys
Time present offers, time to come destroys”

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Juliet after the Masquerade. By Thompson
The Troubadour (1825)

“There grew her father's cypress tree,
No other monument had he.
He bade that never funeral stone
Should tell of glory overthrown,—
What could it say, but foreign sky
Had seen the exile pine and die?”

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The Golden Violet - The Wreath
The Golden Violet (1827)

“IT is in this we differ; I would seek
To blend my very being into thine—
I'm even jealous of thy memory:
I wish our childhood had been pass'd together.”

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The Ancestress (Spoken by Bertha to Jaromir)
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

“… any one who has noticed may have observed that the weeping of grown up persons produces a sensation of awe on the mind of a child. Accustomed to associate the idea of superiority with that of their elders, they cannot understand their giving way to the same emotions as themselves.”

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Traits and Trials of Early Life (1836)

“Weep for life, with its toil and care,
Its crime to shun, and its sorrow to bear;
Let tears and the sign of tears be shed
Over the living, not over the dead!”

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(21st August 1830) The Legacy of the Roses
The London Literary Gazette, 1830

“Then rose those deadlier sounds that tell
When foes meet hand to hand,—
The shout, the yell, the iron clang
Of meeting spear and brand.”

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The Golden Violet - The Falcon
The Golden Violet (1827)

“Who has not loathed that worst, that waking hour,
When grief and consciousness assert their power;
When misery has morn's freshness, yet we fain
Would hold it as a dream, and sleep again;”

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Title poem, section VI.
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

“Her likeness! why it is a vain endeavour
To image it. Painting or words may never
Say what she was; yet dwell I on the task,
As if that Poesy had a right to ask
From Memory its treasure.”

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25th March 1826) Ianthe. A Portrait (under the pen name Iole
(25th March 1826) Moon See The Vow of the Peacock
The London Literary Gazette, 1826

“[From Cecil Forrester]: Nothing like love-letters for filling up a rainy morning. A mistress gives a man such an interest in himself! You cannot run your fingers through your hair, without a vision of the locket wherein one of your curls reposes on the fairest neck in the world. An east-wind only conjures up a host of "sweet anxieties;" and if the worst comes to the worst, you can sit down and write sonnets to your inamorata's eyebrow.”

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Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

“I had lost of humanity but its illusions, and they alone are what render it supportable.”

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Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

“Huge bodies of vapour—a storm in each—were hurrying over a sky, dashed alike with the hues of the tempest and the morning; some of the vapours were of inky blackness, others spread like a scroll of royal purple; some undulated with the light struggling through, others were of transparent whiteness; but those upon the east were of a deep crimson—and the round, red sun had just mounted above an enormous old cedar. Red hues were cast upon everything; even the lilies blushed, and the waters of the little fountain were like melted rubies…”

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The Monthly Magazine

“Oh, love is timid in its birth!
Watching her lightest look or stir,
As he but look'd and breathed with her.
Gay words were passing, but he leant
In silence; yet, one quick glance sent,—
His secret is no more his own,
When has woman her power not known?”

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Canto II
The Troubadour (1825)

“Oh! what is memory but a gift
Within a ruin'd temple left,
Recalling what its beauties were,
And then presenting what they are.”

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Canto III
The Troubadour (1825)

“Take ye my solemn farewell! O, my friends,
Already night is darkening on my eyes;—
But is not Heaven most beautiful by night?
Thousands of stars shine in the kindling sky,
Which is an azure desert during day.
Thus do the gathering of eternal shades
Reveal innumerable thoughts, half lost
In the full daylight of prosperity.”

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Translations, From the French

“I'm weary, I'm weary,—this cold world of ours;
I will go dwell afar, with fairies and flowers.
....
I'm weary, I'm weary,—I'm off with the wind:
Can I find a worse fate than the one left behind?”

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Fantasies, inscribed to T. Crofton Croker, Esq.
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

“{of Theatres} There, while weeping for sorrows which are not, laughing at the light jest or the ludicrous misadventure, how little is remembered of the want which makes fear the only bond that binds the living to life!”

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Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)

“And the hall is lone, and the hall is drear,
For the smiling of woman shineth not here.”

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The Improvisatrice (1824)

“We do too little feel each others' pain;
We do relax too much the social chain
That binds us to each other; slight the care
There is for grief in which we have no share.”

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The Golden Violet - The Rose
The Golden Violet (1827)