Letitia Landon
Letitia Landon
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L...
ah faded flowers memory recalled save
Ah tell me not that memory / Sheds gladness o'er the past; / What is recalled by faded flowers / Save that they did not last?
dearly found hour love pearl purest round stormy waves woman
Love is a pearl of purest hue, / But stormy waves are round it; / And dearly may a woman rue, / The hour that she found it.
common might sum words
We might have been, these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing
beautiful
As beautiful as woman's blush, - / As evanescent too.