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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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“I will look on the stars and look on thee,
and read the page of thy destiny.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(11th October 1823) The Gipsy's Prophecy.
(25th October 1823) Sketch see The Improvisatrice (1824) The Warrior
(15th November 1823) Poetic Sketches. Fourth Series. Sketch I. — The Painter. See The Vow of The Peacock
(6th December 1823) Poetic Sketches. Fourth Series. Sketch IV.— A Village Tale. See The Vow of the Peacock
The London Literary Gazette, 1823

“We met in secret : mystery is to love
Like perfume to the flower; the maiden's blush
Looks loveliest when her cheek is pale with fear.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(18th May 1822) Poetic Sketches. Second Series - Sketch the Third. Rosalie
25th May 1822) St. George’s Hospital, Hyde Park Corner see The Improvisatrice (1824
The London Literary Gazette, 1821-1822

“Beautiful and radiant May,
Is not this thy festal day?
Is not this spring revelry
Held in honour, Queen, of thee?”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(3rd May 1823) Poetical Catalogue of Paintings - On May-day, by Leslie
The London Literary Gazette, 1823

“Hope is a timid thing,
Fearful, and weak, and born in suffering;
At least, such Hope as human life can bring.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(1834-1, page 303) The Future. Re-used in Ethel Churchill (or The Two Brides) Vol. I, Chapter 31
The Monthly Magazine

“All the fairest things of earth,
Art's creations have their birth —
Still from love and death.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(1836-2) (Vol.47) Subjects for Pictures. II. The Banquet of Aspasia and Pericles
The Monthly Magazine

“Alas, tears are the poet's heritage!”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

“He must be rich whom I could love,
His fortune clear must be,
Whether in land or in the funds,
'Tis all the same to me.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

(10th November 1821) Six Songs of Love, Constancy, Romance, Inconstancy, Truth, and Marriage - 'Matrimonial Creed
(24th November 1821) Stanzas see The Improvisatrice (1824) as When Should Lovers Breathe Their Vows?
The London Literary Gazette, 1821-1822

“My tears are buried in my heart,
Like cave-locked fountains sleeping.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Song - I pray thee let me weep to-night
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)