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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Keyword: LANDON Matches Found: 386 A CHILD SCREENING A DOVE FROM A HAWK, BY STEWARDSON, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, screen thy favourite dove, fair child Last Line: A hawk for every dove! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Doves; Paintings & Painters A COMPARISON, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pretty, rainbow sort of life enough Last Line: And, like all toys, ephemeral. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Life A GIRL AT HER DEVOTIONS, BY NEWTON, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was just risen from her bended knee Last Line: On feelings which that picture may not tell. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Prayer A HISTORY OF THE LYRE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sketches indeed, from that most passionate page Last Line: That fed upon itself! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia A LADY'S BEAUTY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ladye, thy white brow is fair Last Line: On thy lip, and in thine eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Beauty A LEGEND OF TINTAGEL CASTLE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone in the forest, sir lancelot rode Last Line: Can bring back the waste to our hearts and our years? Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Arthur, King A LONG WHILE AGO, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still hangeth down the old accustom'd willow Last Line: A long while ago. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Friendship; Melancholy; Memory; Dejection A NIGHT IN MAY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light and glad through the rooms the gay music is waking Last Line: Its glory a shade, and its loveliness tears. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia A NOBLE LADY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pale and stately lady, with a brow Last Line: The past had left its darkness. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Past A POET'S LOVE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faint and more faint amid the world of dreams Last Line: To dream once more my early dreams again. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love A PORTRAIT, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many were lovely there; but, of that many Last Line: Her face was full of feeling. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia A RUINED CASTLE ON THE RHINE; FORMERLY BELONGING TO TEMPLARS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the dark heights that overlook the rhine Last Line: Whose noblest victories are yet unwon. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Castles; Rhine (river), Europe; Templars (knights) A SUMMER DAY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet valley, whose streams flow as sparkling and bright Last Line: The light of thy beauty, the hope of thy spring. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Summer A SUMMER EVENING'S TALE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, let thy careless sail float on the wind Last Line: To darkness, and to silence, and the grave! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia A SUPPER AT MADAME DE BRINVILLIERS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Small but gorgeous was the chamber Last Line: Wine and sigh alike are death! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Brinvilliers, Marie De (1630-1676); Poisons & Poisoning A SUTTEE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gather her raven hair in one rich cluster Last Line: No more to part. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Sacrifices; Widows & Widowers AFTER THE MASQUERADE, BY THOMPSON, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She left the festival, for it seem'd dim Last Line: Of love known all too soon, repented all too late. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Paintings & Painters AGE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Age is a dreary thing when left alone Last Line: The short dark pathway leading to the tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Aging AGE AND YOUTH, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I tell thee,' said the old man, 'what is life' Last Line: "whose consciousness is as an unknown curse?" Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Old Age; Youth ALEXANDER AND PHILIP, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stood by the river's side Last Line: That faith and trust were made for the brave. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.) ALEXANDER ON THE BANKS OF THE HYPHASIS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lonely by the moonlit waters Last Line: But whose altar is the tomb! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.) ALL TRUE DEEP FEELING PURIFIES THE HEART, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love AMY, by RANDY JAY LANDON Poem Source First Line: Amy, you and plato were right ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA; AN ANECDOTE FROM PLUTARCH, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glorious was the marble hall Last Line: "never can live with one shade of distrust." Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Antony, Marc (83-30 B.c.); Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Marcus Antonius; Anthony, Mark APOLOGUE: THE THOUGHT SUGGESTED BY A SPANISH SAYING, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seek for me in the arab maid's bower Last Line: Parted once, we part for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Air; Fire; Shame; Water ARIADNE WATCHING THE SAE AFTER THE DEPARTURE OF THESEUS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lonely - lonely on the shore Last Line: Loving, but beloved no more! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Ariadne; Grief; Mythology - Classical; Sorrow; Sadness ARION: A TALE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The winds are high, the clouds are dark Last Line: And pour'd their hymn to the queen of the tide. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia AT THE SUPERMARKET, 8 P.M., by LUANN LANDON Poem Source First Line: Five people stand behind him in the line Last Line: He does not look behind when he takes flight %triumphant, wins the rose, the girl, the night AWAKENING OF ENDYMION, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lone upon a mountain, the pine-trees wailing round him Last Line: Like that youth to night's fair queen! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Endymion BITTER EXPERIENCE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How often, in this cold and bitter world Last Line: There are too many such! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia BONDS OF AFFECTION, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is in life no blessing like affection Last Line: And wealth an empty glitter, without love. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Variant Title(s): Affection BRIDAL FLOWERS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bind the white orange-flowers in her hair Last Line: The bride and morning bathe their wreath with tears Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Flowers; Marriage; Omens; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CAFES IN DAMASCUS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Languidly the night-wind bloweth Last Line: Could be such a dream! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Damascus, Syria; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners CALYPSO WATCHING THE OCEAN, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Years, years have pass'd away Last Line: Mid the far-off southern seas. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Calypso (mythology) CAN YOU FORGET ME?, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can you forget me? - I who have so cherished Last Line: You have forgotten me. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Loss Of CARRICK-A-REDE, IRELAND, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He dwelt amid the gloomy rocks Last Line: A solitary man. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Ireland; Solitude; Irish; Loneliness CEMETRY OF THE SMOLENSKI CHURCH, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They gather, with the summer in their hands Last Line: The future has its hope, the past its deep affection. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Cemeteries; Russia; Smolensk, Russia; Graveyards; Soviet Union; Russians CEO IN KINKO'S, by LUANN LANDON Poem Source First Line: The man in line in front of me is dressed Last Line: Has reached by now perhaps his bottom line CHANCE NOTES STRUCK THE LUTE - FANCIES AND THOUGHTS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia CHANGE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How much of change lies in a little space! Last Line: Grows dark and actual. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Change CHANGE; A FRAGMENT, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And this is what is left of youth Last Line: .... And this, this is life! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Change CHANGES IN LONDON, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The presence of perpetual change Last Line: Will yet have passed away. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Change; London CHARLIE, by LUANN LANDON Poem Source First Line: Arrives at seven a.M. Telling sad tales - Last Line: A working soul can say let there be light %and hope a house will stand against the night Subject(s): Miracles CHRIST CROWNED WITH THORNS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too little do we think of thee Last Line: From past and guilty years. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Jesus Christ CI-DEVANT!, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot, if I would, call back again Last Line: Of happiness in love no more. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia CLYTIE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look upon that flower! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia CONFIDENCE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fear not to trust her destiny with me Last Line: Its sole dependence was upon my love. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia CORFU, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now doth not summer's sunny smile Last Line: Alas! And is such heart mine own? Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Corfu (island), Greece CRESCENTIUS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I look'd upon his brow; no sign / of guilt or fear was there Last Line: Her patriot and her latest one. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia CUPID AND SWALLOWS FLYING FROM WINTER, BY DAGLEY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Away, away, o'er land and sea Last Line: While the winter lords it here. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Winter CURELESS WOUNDS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: False look, false hope, and falsest love Last Line: Are easier than such wounds to heal. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia CUSTOM AND INDIFFERENCE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot choose, but marvel at the way Last Line: There is for grief, in which we have no share. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Indifference DANGERS FACED, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is filled with bitter thought Last Line: We face them, and they're gone. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Fear DEAR GIFTS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life's best gifts are bought dearly. Wealth is won Last Line: How dark the penalty that it exacts! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Genius; Pleasure; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes DEATH AND THE YOUTH, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not yet, the flowers are in my path Last Line: "I'm ready now to die!" Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH IN THE FLOWER, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a fair tree, the almond-tree: there spring Last Line: Tis death! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Almond Trees; Death; Trees; Dead, The DEATH-BED OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On his bed the king was lying Last Line: The warriors of the world! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.); Death; Dead, The DECEMBER SOLSTICE, by LUANN LANDON Poem Source First Line: My plants survive even in winter light Last Line: A lighted room, a meal once more begun %they have their source and impulse in the sun DESPONDENCY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, tell me not that memory Last Line: And hopes now numbered with the dead! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Despair DIFFERENT THOUGHTS SUGGESTED BY A PICTURE BY G.S. NEWTON, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Which is the truest reading of thy look? Last Line: On which I swear forgetfulness Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Paintings And Painters; Women DOUBT, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I tell thee death were far more merciful Last Line: And broken ere it reach the stream below. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Doubt; Skepticism DREAMS, by RUTH LANDON Poem Source First Line: One day as I was sitting EARTH LEADS TO HEAVEN, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a weary and a wretched life Last Line: And we can but remember and regret. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Future Life; Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life EGERIA'S GROTTO, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A silver fountain with a changeful shade Last Line: A wish, a vision, and a fantasie. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia ERINNA, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was she of spirit race, or was she one Last Line: Thy truth, thy tenderness, be all thy fame! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Erinna (4th Century B.c.) EUCLES ANNOUNCING THE VICTORY OF MARATHON, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He cometh from the purple hills Last Line: Sets in tears and blood o'er marathon. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Marathon, Greece EVERY HUNGRY SPARROW, by LUANN LANDON Poem Source First Line: There was a woman lovely and unkind Last Line: And every hungry sparrow to be her friend Subject(s): Birds; Women EXPECTATION, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She looked from out the window Last Line: All that thou hast sought unfound. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia EXPERIENCE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My very heart is filled with tears! I seem Last Line: Thy starry rest is in eternity! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia EXPERIENCE TOO LATE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the past that maketh my despair Last Line: Loathed, yet despised, why must I think of it? Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia FAIRIES ON THE SEA-SHORE, BY HOWARD, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My home and haunt are in every leaf Last Line: Will put us and our glow-worm lamps to flight! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Fairies; Paintings & Painters; Elves FAITH DESTROYED, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did I love him? I looked up to him Last Line: That which I loved. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Troy FAITH ILL REQUITED, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I feel the presence of my own despair Last Line: When falsehood wears such seeming? Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed FALSE APPEARANCES, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who, that had looked on her that morn Last Line: Was semblance, and but misery there! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia FANTASIES INSCRIBED TO T. CROFTON CROKER, ESQ., by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm weary, I'm weary, - this cold world of ours Last Line: For, alas! I'm but dreaming, and dreams are but vain. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia FAREWELL! OH MY BROTHER!, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come up with the banner, and on with the sword Last Line: I return to her side, and to england, again. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Homecoming FATE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The steps of fate are dark and terrible Last Line: The heaven which is our future and our home. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Fate; Destiny FELICIA HEMANS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art gone from us, and with thee departed Last Line: Around thy grave -- a grave which is a shrine. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Hemans, Felicia (1793-1835) FOLDING LAUNDRY, by LUANN LANDON Poem Source First Line: Putting corner to corner, edge Last Line: Abundantly we live, justly we die FORM, by LUANN LANDON Poem Source First Line: Visible only in sunlight, not in shadow Last Line: In a world that when the spider leaves, is left FOUNTAIN'S ABBEY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never more, when the day is o'er Last Line: With its beauty to cheer decay. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Monasteries; Ruins; Abbeys FREE-MONEY, by RANDY JAY LANDON Poem Source First Line: Nothing is as poisonous to FURNESS ABBEY; IN THE VALE OF NIGHTSHADE, LANCASHIRE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish for the days of the olden time Last Line: And I sigh for the days of the veil and the vow. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Furness Abbey; Lancashire, England; Past; Abbey Of St. Mary GENIUS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! And must this be the fate Last Line: Alive to every misery? Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Genius GENTLENESS PICTURED, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A gentle creature was that girl Last Line: The sweetness at the heart. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia GIFTS MISUSED, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, what a waste of feeling and of thought Last Line: The opiate of the mind! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Praise GLADESMUIR, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is not / a valley of more quiet happiness Last Line: They made her grave by ronald's. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Home GOSSIPING, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are the spiders of society Last Line: In the ingenious torment they contrive. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Gossip HANDS, by LUANN LANDON Poem Source First Line: Saturday morning, the taut week unknots Last Line: But know the world's come round again to love HANNIBAL'S OATH, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the night was dark and calm Last Line: How that oath of hate was kept. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Hannibal (247-183 B.c.); Hate HAPPINESS WITHIN, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And yet it is a wasted heart Last Line: The sooner it will break. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight HEBE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Youth! Thou art a lovely time Last Line: Asking but to rest or break. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Youth HOMAGE TO LUIGI BOCCHERINI, by DAVID RYTMAN SLAVITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Landon to haydn's roosevelt, luigi Last Line: And, silent, hallow boccherini, dead Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton, Henry Benjamin; Slavitt, David R. HOME, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I left my home; - 'twas in a little vale Last Line: Alas! For the green valley! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Home HOPE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is not the lark companion of the spring? Last Line: Sweet as the tender myrtle. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Hope; Optimism HOPE AND LOVE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun was setting o'er the sea Last Line: Or hope grow cold, or love forget! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Hope; Love; Optimism HUMANITY ANGELIC, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If ever angels walked on weary earth Last Line: In the strong love that bound it to its kind. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia HURDWAR, A PLACE OF HINDOO PILGRIMAGE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love the feeling which, in former days Last Line: And owns the true god in the false god's shrine Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Hinduism; India; Religion ILLUSION, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And thus it is with all that made life fair Last Line: Illusions vain, as any in the past. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Hallucinations & Illusions; Life IMMORTALITY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strong as the death it masters, is the hope Last Line: Mine the first welcome heard in paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Immortality IN A PARIS APARTMENT, by LUANN LANDON Poem Source First Line: Noon light, sun-yellow walls, midsummer wind Last Line: Salves an old hurt that's rusting in the heart INEZ, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas that clouds should ever steal Last Line: Of inez on her juan's breast. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia INFLUENCE OF POETRY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the charm of poetry: it comes Last Line: Than dwelleth with the common-place of life. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Poetry & Poets JULIET AFTER THE MASQUERADE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She has left the lighted hall Last Line: Beating thine unto the last! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Paintings & Painters KATE KEARNEY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why doth the maiden turn away Last Line: And pine, the victims of a dream. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Legends, Irish LA FEMME AU SOLEIL, by LUANN LANDON Poem Source First Line: She lives on a quiet street, a modest street Last Line: Despair. He looked toward light, this prevailing life, %said, 'let it be.' LAZY BOY'S IDEA, by RUFUS CLARK LANDON Poem Source First Line: Just drop a nickle in the slot!' LIFE SURVEYED, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not in a close and bounded atmosphere Last Line: To yield is to resemble. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Life LIFE'S MASK, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Which was the true philosopher? - the sage Last Line: Beneath, the pale and careworn countenance. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia LINES OF LIFE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, read my cheek, and watch my eye Last Line: Long after life has fled. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia LINES WRITTEN UNDER A PICTURE OF A GIRL BURNING LOVE LETTER, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I took the scroll: I could not brook Last Line: I fear'd it was love's history. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Letters; Love - Complaints LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come back, come back together Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia LITTLE SHEPHERD, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She had lost many children - now Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia LITTLE SHROUD, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She put him on a snow-white shroud Last Line: And only asked of heaven it aid %her heavy lot to bear Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia LIVING TOGETHER, by LUANN LANDON Poem Source First Line: Nothing, they think, can break their lives apart Last Line: To compass them and carry them through death LONG YEARS HAVE PAST SINCE LAST I STOOD, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A place of rugged rocks, adown whose sides Last Line: Should never seek those scenes again. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia LOVE (1), by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She pressed her slight hand to her brow, or pain Last Line: And this is love! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Complaints LOVE (2), by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is a thing of frail and delicate growth Last Line: For which there is no healing. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE A MYSTERY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It matters not its history - love has wings Last Line: His life thy empire, and his heart thy throne? Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Nature Of LOVE NURSED BY SOLITUDE, BY W. I. THOMSON, EDINBURGH, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, surely it is here that love should come Last Line: With thy sweet wings furl'd but in solitude? Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love; Paintings & Painters; Solitude; Loneliness LOVE'S ENDING, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And this, then, is love's ending. It is like Last Line: By passion's earthquake, loathes the name of love. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Loss Of LOVE'S FOLLOWERS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an evil in pandora's box Last Line: His followers for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Curses; Love LOVE'S LAST LESSON, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Teach it me, if you can, - forgetfulness! Last Line: Have lain there long before. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Love LOVE'S SLAVES, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the heart that has not bowed Last Line: More than another's whole of feeling! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love LOVE'S TIMIDITY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not ask to offer thee Last Line: May pray for thee and weep. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love LOVE, HOPE, AND BEAUTY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love may be increased by fears Last Line: For without hope it dies. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Beauty; Hope; Love - Nature Of; Optimism MANMADIN, THE INDIAN CUPID, FLOATING DOWN THE GANGES, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is darkness on the sky Last Line: Well may bend to thee, o love! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Cupid; India; Eros MARIUS AT THE RUINS OF CARTHAGE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He turn'd him from the setting sun Last Line: And then went forth to war again! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Carthage; Marius, Gaius (157-86 B.c.); Roman Empire; War MEMORY (1), by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! There are memories that will not vanish Last Line: But memory stands a ghost amid the gloom! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Memory MEMORY (2), by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not say bequeath unto my soul Last Line: And now its only task is to remember. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Memory MOONLIGHT, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moonlight falleth lovely over earth Last Line: Such gentle intercession. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Hate MOSAIC, by LUANN LANDON Poem Source First Line: Too quiet, my sister in her room alone Last Line: To make a dawn of broken yesterdays MUCH CHANGE IN A LITTLE TIME, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And she too - that beloved child, was gone Last Line: We know not love till those we love depart. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Nature Of MUSIC OF LAUGHTER, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She had that charming laugh which, like a song Last Line: The depth and truth of earnest tenderness. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Laughter NECESSITY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the ancestral presence of the dead Last Line: Till the stern tide ebbs -- and there is the grave. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia NEW YEAR'S EVE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no change upon the air Last Line: My heart is its own grave! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Despair; Holidays; New Year NIGHT AT SEA, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lovely purple of the noon's bestowing Last Line: Her voyage done -- to-morrow we shall land. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Sea Voyages NYMPH AND ZEPHYR; A STATUARY GROUP, BY WESTMACOTT, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the summer sun shone in the sky Last Line: "but in the search, not in the success." Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors O MY MOTHERS, by LUANN LANDON Poem Source First Line: When I am in chaos waiting to find form Last Line: Don't leave me, don't leave me, I am not graven yet OH! IF THOU LOVEST AND ART A WOMAN, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia ON A STAR, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful star, that art wandering through Last Line: An early grave, and a broken heart! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Stars ON AN ENGRAVING OF HINDOO TEMPLES, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little the present careth for the past Last Line: By thy free laws and thy immortal creed. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): India; Temples; Women; Mosques ON READING A DESCRIPTION OF THE DELECTABLE MOUNTAINS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh far away ye are, ye lovely hills Last Line: Let its dark portals open -- let me die! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ON THE PORTRAIT OF ROBERT PEEL, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dim through the curtains came the purple twilight slowly Last Line: The power to scatter benefits and blessings round its sway. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Peel, Sir Robert (1788-1850) ON WORDSWORTH'S COTTAGE; NEAR GRASMERE LAKE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not for the glory on their heads Last Line: Thy temple, is thy name alone. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) ONE DAY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sunshine of the morning Last Line: What find ye but the grave? Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia OPENING DAY FANTASY: DRIVING PAST ALF LANDON'S HOUSE, by ROBERT TREMMEL First Line: As you turn off sixth street OPINIONS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He scorned them from the centre of his heart Last Line: How can he choose but loathe them? Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia ORNAMENTS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bring from the east, bring from the west Last Line: To the human heart, feverish and beating, below? Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia PARTING, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We do not know how much we love Last Line: Farewell's a bitter word to say. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Farewell; Parting PEACE WROUGHT BY PAIN, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over that pallid face were wrought Last Line: The gold it wins, is gold from heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Pain; Peace; Suffering; Misery PETRARCH'S DREAM, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rosy as a waking bride Last Line: Kindled from the tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Petrarch (1304-1374); Francesco Petrarca PHANTOM BRIDE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And over hill and over plain Last Line: The next they laid him by her side Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Death PIRATE'S SONG OFF THE TIGER ISLAND, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our prize is won, our chase is o'er Last Line: Our first health shall be to him Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Pirates PLEASURE BECOMES PAIN, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot count the changes of my heart Last Line: Till the heart saith of pleasure, it is pain. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Pain; Suffering; Misery POET, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, deeply the minstrel has felt all he sings Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia POETICAL CATALOGUE OF PICTURES, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful art! My worship is for thee Last Line: What his high communing had been. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Paintings & Painters POLITICAL PORTRAITS: 1, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O no, sweet lady, not to thee Last Line: And such, sweet lady, be thy fate! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia POLITICAL PORTRAITS: 2, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Little do those features wear Last Line: Ah! Little like our actual one. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia POLITICAL PORTRAITS: 3, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His hand is on the snowy sail Last Line: Are only emblems; -- what art thou? Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia POLITICAL PORTRAITS: 4, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His brow is pale with high and passionate thoughts Last Line: For the green memory of an early grave. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia POLITICAL PORTRAITS: 5, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy beauty! Not a fault is there Last Line: It could not dwell with thee. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia POLITICAL PORTRAITS: 6, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The light is kindling in his eye Last Line: The vanity of fame! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia PORTRAIT OF A LADY, BY SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, thy lofty brow is fair Last Line: Grace and ornament of all! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Lawrence, Sir Thomas (1769-1830); Paintings & Painters PRESENTIMENT, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I feel the shadow on my brow Last Line: And feels it is divine. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia PRIDE IN TRIFLES, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, life must mock itself, to mark how small Last Line: Has fancied into grandeur. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Vanity PRINCESS VICTORIA, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And art thou a princess? -- in sooth, we may well Last Line: Is -- god keep the crown long from that innocent brow! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Great Britain - Rulers; Politics QUIET THING, by LUANN LANDON Poem Source First Line: A bird sings only-sings to its own kind Last Line: Among the sibilant trees-a bird sings only RED BIRD, by LUANN LANDON Poem Source First Line: Red bird on a branch against a windowpane Last Line: Or scene of an immense unfolding glory? REMEMBRANCE (1), by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pale memory sits alone, brooding o'er the past Last Line: Has absolute dominion. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Future; Memory REMEMBRANCE (2), by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love taketh many colours, and weareth many shapes Last Line: To droop beneath an outward smile -- such is woman's lot. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Women REMORSE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! He brings me back my early years Last Line: And I am desperate with my misery! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Remorse RESOLVES, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What mockeries are our most firm resolves Last Line: To winds and waves that laugh at man's control. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia REVENGE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, gaze upon her rose-wreath'd hair Last Line: For thou art not beloved. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Revenge RIENZI SHOWING NINA THE TOMB OF HIS BROTHER, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was hidden in a wild wood Last Line: Thus was she won. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Courtship ROLAND'S TOWER: A LEGEND OF THE RHINE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where, like a courser starting from the spur Last Line: Was roland's death-bed! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Roland ROSALIE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a wild tale - and sad, too, as the sigh Last Line: She knelt -- and gazed -- and saw her mother -- dead! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SALLY'S SHOES, by LUANN LANDON Poem Source First Line: Her shoes, her dancing shoes, sullenly propped Last Line: And surfeited with tears that will not flow SAPPHO, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She leant upon her harp, and thousands look'd Last Line: Are sacred -- the devoted sappho! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Sappho (610-580 B.c.) SCALE FORCE, CUMBERLAND, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It sweeps, as sweeps an army Last Line: From such a scene depart! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia SCENE DURING THE PLAGUE AT GIBRALTAR, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At first, I only buried one Last Line: And there I stood alone. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Gibraltar; Yellow Fever SCENES IN LONDON: 1. PICCADILLY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is on the crowded street Last Line: Which leave themselves behind. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Piccadilly, London SCENES IN LONDON: 2. OXFORD STREET, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life in its many shapes was there Last Line: How strangely do ye meet! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Oxford Street, London SCENES IN LONDON: 3. THE SAVOYARD IN GROSVENOR SQUARE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stands within the silent square Last Line: Than ours is for each other. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Grosvenor Square, London SCENES IN LONDON: 4. THE CITY CHURCHYARD, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pray thee lay me not to rest Last Line: Give loveliness to death. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Churchyards; Funerals; London; Burials SECRETS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life has dark secrets; and the hearts are few Last Line: Avenging, and betraying. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Secrets; Time SELF-BLINDEDNESS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shakespeare said of lovers, might apply Last Line: Life's best repose is blindness to itself. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia SELF-REPROACH, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the heart is an avenging power Last Line: There is no wretchedness like self-reproach. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Self-criticism SHE SAT ALONE BESIDE HER HEARTH, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia SHE WAS SENT FORTH, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love SHUHUR, JEYPORE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lonely grave, far from all kindred ties Last Line: And pine and perish 'neath a foreign sky. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Graves; India; Tombs; Tombstones SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Divinest art, the stars above Last Line: By showing what her sex can be. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Lawrence, Sir Thomas (1769-1830); Paintings & Painters; Women SIR WALTER MANNY AT HIS FATHER'S TOMB; BALLAD, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, show me the grave where my father is laid Last Line: I shall not mourn my task is done. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Chivalry SIR WALTER SCOTT, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead! - it was like a thunderbolt Last Line: We can but weep above thy grave. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832) SMALL MISERIES, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life's smallest miseries are, perhaps, its worst Last Line: The pang that they inflict! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia SONG (1), by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pray thee let me weep to-night Last Line: Where hope in death is sleeping. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia SONG (10), by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Breathe not of love Last Line: And give me his wings. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love SONG (11), by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our early years - our early years Last Line: Recall them not again. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Past SONG (12), by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, when the grave shall open for me Last Line: The bending and dark blue violet. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Flowers; Graves; Violets; Tombs; Tombstones SONG (13), by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved her! And her azure eyes Last Line: How I ever lived while free? Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia SONG (14), by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mouth that is itself a rose Last Line: None but I may know Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia SONG (15), by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I send back thy letters Last Line: How faithless thou art Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Unfaithfulness SONG (16), by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As steals the dew along the flower Last Line: I first loved thee Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia SONG (2), by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is like the failing hearth Last Line: As suffer deep seek mirth in vain. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia SONG (3), by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, farewell! I'll dream no more; / 'tis misery to be dreaming Last Line: Thus sang the lady isabelle. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia SONG (4), by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where do purple bubbles swim Last Line: As thus, with bow'd down head, she sung. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia SONG (5), by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have belied my woman's heart Last Line: "watch over love's enchanted sleep." Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love SONG (6), by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where, oh! Where's the chain to fling Last Line: The magic of so dear a tone. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia SONG (7), by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know my heart is as a grave Last Line: Lovely as her own, arise. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia SONG (8), by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh never another dream can be Last Line: That early dream of ours. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares SONG (9), by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell! - and never think of me Last Line: Then -- and then only -- think of me! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Farewell; Parting SONG OF THE HUNTER'S BRIDE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another day - another day Last Line: My ulric, welcome home! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Hunting; Hunters SONNET, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How joyful is the garlandon her golden locks Last Line: What, then, would my arms do? Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo SORROWS AND PLEASURES, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is an awful thing how we forget Last Line: That draw all life together. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness ST. GEORGE'S HOSPITAL, HYDE PARK CORNER, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are familiar things, and yet how few Last Line: Wore its pale marble look of cold defiance. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Hospitals STANZAS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know it is not made to last Last Line: To know that once it loved. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia STANZAS ON THE DEATH OF MRS. HEMANS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bring flowers to crown the cup and lute Last Line: And I can write no more. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Hemans, Felicia (1793-1835) STANZAS ON THE NEW YEAR, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood between the meeting years Last Line: "for happiness dwells there!" Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Holidays; New Year STANZAS TO THE AUTHOR OF MONT BLANC, ADA, ETC., by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy hands are fill'd with early flowers Last Line: Not wither all that grows beneath! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia STERN TRUTH, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life is made up of vanities - so small Last Line: And makes us feel that fate is terrible. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Vanity SUBJECTS FOR PICTURES, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What seek I here to gather into words? Last Line: And grows distinct with poetry. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Imagination; Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets; Fancy SUCCESS ALONE SEEN, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Few know of life's beginnings - men behold Last Line: Men would behold its threshold, and despair. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Success TENNESSEE TALKS BACK TO NEW YORK, by LUANN LANDON Poem Source First Line: You faulted me for being insincere Last Line: I always, thanks to you, have truth in mind THE AFRICAN PRINCE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a king in africa Last Line: One hope within his heart. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Africa; Courts & Courtiers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE ALTERED RIVER, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou lovely river, thou art now Last Line: And when have dreams not flown? Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Rivers THE ANCESTRESS; A DRAMATIC SKETCH, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is in this we differ; I would seek Last Line: Castle hide the whole. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Guilt; Punishment; Heritage; Heredity THE ARAB MAID, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the dark and sunless caverns Last Line: Love has only one. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Arabs THE ASTROLOGER, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! For our ancient believings Last Line: But happiness still is to come. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Astrology & Astrologers; Fate; Destiny THE BANQUET OF ASPASIA AND PERICLES, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Waken'd by the small white fingers Last Line: The bright athenian bride. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Aspasia (5th Century B.c.); Pericles (490-429 B.c.) THE BASQUE GIRL AND HENRI QUATRE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love! Summer flower, how soon thou art decay'd Last Line: Had seal'd love's sacrifice! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE BATTLE FIELD, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a battle field, and the cold moon Last Line: And listless slumber. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE BAYADERE: AN INDIAN TALE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were seventy pillars around the hall Last Line: "aza the queen of his heart and hall!" Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE BROKEN SPELL: THE FIRST PROVENCAL MINSTREL'S LAY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where on earth is the truth that may vie Last Line: Of the knightly deeds which their numbers told. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE CARRIER-PIGEON RETURNED, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sunset has flung its glory o'er the floods Last Line: The darkness of the grave is now before her. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Pigeons THE CASTLE OF CHILLON, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair lake, thy lovely and thy haunted shore Last Line: The heart thy fuel, and the grave thy shrine. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Alps; Chillon Castle, Switzerland; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE CEDARS OF LEBANON, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye ancients of the earth, beneath whose shade Last Line: Than ye have known -- cedars of lebanon! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Cedar Trees; Lebanon THE CHARM IS GONE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I did not wish to see his face Last Line: It can be charmed no more! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Loss Of THE CHILD OF THE SEA: THE LAY OF THE SECOND PROVENCAL BARD, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a summer evening; and the sea Last Line: The tale of sorrow, sin. And death. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE CHURCH AT POLIGNAC, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kneel down in yon chapel, but only one prayer Last Line: For, mercy, thy cause is the cause of mankind. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Churches; Polignac, Auguste De (1780-1847); Cathedrals THE COMBAT, BY ETTY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They fled, - for there was for the brave Last Line: He strikes, -- the work of death is done! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Etty, William (1787-1849); Paintings & Painters THE CONISTON CURSE: A YORKSHIRE LEGEND, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They knelt upon the altar steps, but other looks were there Last Line: And touches all, -- no master yet has ever left an heir. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Curses; Yorkshire, England THE CORONATION, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What memories haunt the venerable pile! Last Line: Make the place sacred. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE COUNTRY RETREAT, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh lone and lovely solitude Last Line: Is what the city yields. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Country Life THE COVENTANTERS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mine home is but a blacken'd heap Last Line: Upon the rock, and loathe the vale beneath? Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE CRUSADER, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is come from the land of the sword and shrine Last Line: He found it -- that warrior has died with the brave! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE DANCING GIRL, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A light and joyous figure, one that seems Last Line: The dust and ashes of a happier time. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers THE DEATH OF THE SEA KING, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark, how dark the morning Last Line: The earl and the maiden together lie dead! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE DESERTER, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, for the bright promise of our youth! Last Line: Shot for desertion! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Desertion, Military THE DIARY OF A WEEK, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A record of the inward world, whose facts Last Line: On such these records linger. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Diaries THE DISTURBING SPIRIT, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doubt, despairing, crime, and craft Last Line: Well may bend to thee, o love! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE DREAM IN THE TEMPLE OF SERAPIS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heavy night is falling Last Line: The temple of the god. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.); Temples; Mosques THE DREAM: THE LAY OF THE SCOTTISH MINSTREL, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are no sounds in the wanderer's eye Last Line: As the master told his ancient tale. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Scotland THE DYING CHILD, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her cheek is flushed with fever red Last Line: There, there, my child, lie down and die! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Death - Children; Guilt; Pain; Poverty; Death - Babies; Suffering; Misery THE EARL OF SANDWICH, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They called the islands by his name Last Line: And calls them by some name of home. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Montagu, John, 4th Earl Of Sandwich; Twitcher, Jemmy THE EASTERN KING: THE PILGRIM'S TALE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He flung back the chaplet, he threw down the wine Last Line: Like the lone lily on his grave. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Despair THE EMERALD RING; A SUPERSTITION, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a gem which hath the power to show Last Line: My heart is broken -- not estranged! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Love - Complaints; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces THE ENCHANTED ISLAND, BY DANBY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And there the island lay, the waves around Last Line: His bride to the fair island. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Danby, Francis (1793-1861); Paintings & Painters THE EVENING STAR, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, loveliest! That through my casement gleaming Last Line: Oh, life and earth, what were ye without dreams! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Stars THE FACTORY; 'TIS AN ACCURSED THING!, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There rests a shade above yon town Last Line: There is a curse on thee! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Factories; Industrial Revolution; Pollution THE FAIRY OF THE FOUNTAINS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did she love her mother's so? Last Line: The fountain fairy -- melusine! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Fountains; Legends, English THE FAIRY QUEEN SLEEPING, BY STOTHARD, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She lay upon a bank, the favourite haunt Last Line: Wake, titania, wake, our queen! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Stothard, Thomas (1755-1834) THE FALCON; THE LAY OF THE NORMAN KNIGHT, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear a sound o'er hill and plain Last Line: Your pleasant dream, half thought, half sigh. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE FAREWELL, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell! / shadows and scenes that have, for many hours Last Line: And hopes, almost misgivings! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE FATHER'S LOVE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis no tmy home - he made it home Last Line: But I had only thine. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Fathers THE FEARFUL TRUST, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a fearful trust, the trust of love Last Line: Its childhood is departed. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE FEAST OF LIFE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bid thee to my mystic feast Last Line: But life in its reality! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Life THE FEMALE CONVICT, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She shrank from all, and her silent mood Last Line: The convict has found in the green sea a grave. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Adversity; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Dead, The; Convicts THE FETE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a feast that night Last Line: Came thronging in. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Variant Title(s): The Banquet THE FIRST DAY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis may again, another may Last Line: Bade his soft notes arise the while. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE FIRST DOUBT, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Youth, love, and rank, and wealth - all these combined Last Line: She sank before the presence of despair! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Unrequited THE FIRST GRAVE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A single grave! - the only one Last Line: Which sanctify the grave! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE FUNERAL, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mark you not yon sad procession Last Line: Wilt thou keep that urn? Love mine! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Funerals; Burials THE FUTURE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ask me not, love, what can be in my heart Last Line: Thank heaven, the future is at least unknown! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Future THE GANGES, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On sweeps the mighty river - calmly flowing Last Line: Bear as that bears -- where'er thou goest -- blessing! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Ganges River, India THE GOLDEN VIOLET, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To-morrow, to-morrow, thou loveliest may Last Line: "the victor's crown of violet." Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE GRASP OF THE DEAD, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the battlefield, and the cold pale moon Last Line: With his sword in his own brave keeping! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE GREY CROSS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A grey cross stands beneath yon old beech-tree Last Line: Echoes in the lime valleys of castile! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE GUERILLA CHIEF, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But the war-storm came on the mountain gale Last Line: Marks the guerilla and the maiden's tomb! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE HAUNTED LAKE: THE IRISH MINSTREL'S LEGEND, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rose up the young moon; back she flung Last Line: Mid these northern halls, to the meed of fame. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Lakes; Legends, Irish; Pools; Ponds THE HEART'S OMENS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I felt my sorrow ere it came Last Line: The spirit world to ours. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Omens THE HINDOO GIRL'S SONG, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Float on - float on - my haunted bark Last Line: For it has gained the shore. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Girls; India; Superstition THE IMPROVISATRICE: A MOORISH ROMANCE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Softly through the pomegranate groves Last Line: I sang, but, as I sang, I wept. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE IMPROVISATRICE: INTRODUCTION, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a daughter of that land Last Line: Her latest, wildest song was breaking. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE IMPROVISATRICE: LEADS AND CYDIPPE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sat her in her twilight bower Last Line: As e'er was poured in woman's ear! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE IMPROVISATRICE: LORENZO'S HISTORY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was betrothed from earliest youth Last Line: "lorenzo to his minstrel love." Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE IMPROVISATRICE: SAPPHO'S SONG, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, my lute! - and would that I Last Line: Vibrate the chord whereon it sleeps! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Farewell; Lutes; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Parting THE IMPROVISATRICE: SONG, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell - we shall not meet again Last Line: Came sweet upon the midnight wind. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE IMPROVISATRICE: THE CHARMED CUP, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And fondly round his neck she clung Last Line: Worshipped and flattered but for thee! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE IMPROVISATRICE: THE HINDOO GIRL'S SONG, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Playful and wild as the fire-flies' light Last Line: As tehose the pining wood-dove sings. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE IMPROVISATRICE: THE INDIAN BRIDE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She has lighted her lamp, and crowned it with flowers Last Line: With words that love wrung from despair. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE INFLUENCE OF THE DEAD, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who are the spirits watching by the dead? Last Line: While love stands watching by the sepulchre. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE IONIAN CAPTIVE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sadly the captive o'er the flowers is bending Last Line: And see her household and her hills again! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE KINGS OF GOLCONDA, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Morning is round the shining palace Last Line: Of golconda's ancient kings. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE LAST LOOK, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shade of the will fell dark on the tide Last Line: "ah, who will now watch o'er my favourite flowers!" Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Childhood THE LAST NIGHT WITH THE DEAD, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How awful is the presence of the dead! Last Line: In losing those who loved us. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE LAUREL, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fling down the laurel from her golden hair Last Line: And last, farewell! Oh, my false love, to thee! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE LITTLE GLEANER, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Very fair the child was, with hair of darkest auburn Last Line: For ever, in its joy, does the full heart think of heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE LITTLENESS OF LIFE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life is so little in its vanities Last Line: To their own wretched level nobler things. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Life; Vanity THE LOST, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I did not know till she was lost Last Line: That now is left behind. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE LOST PLEIAD, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A story from the stars; or rather one Last Line: But turns to death on touching earth. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Pleiades (constellation) THE MARRIAGE VOW, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The altar, 'tis of death! For there are laid Last Line: For in the grave is rest. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE MASK OF GAIETY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis strange to think, if we could fling aside Last Line: These are the bars, the curtains to the breast. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Facades; Appearances THE MIND'S UNREST, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mind, dangerous and glorious gift! Last Line: It is itself its sacrifice. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE MINISTER, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dim thro' the sculptured aisles the sunbeam falls Last Line: Which leads and cheers man to eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE MINSTREL OF PORTUGAL, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their path had been a troubled one, each step Last Line: Her humble lover perish'd! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Minstrels THE MINSTREL'S MONITOR, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silent and dark is the source of yon river Last Line: The beauty and glory of sunshine and fame. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE MOORISH MAIDEN'S VIGIL, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Does she watch him, fondly watch him Last Line: And it is the grave! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Waiting THE MOUNTAIN GRAVE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sate beside the rock from which arose Last Line: Where agatha was sleeping. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE NAMELESS GRAVE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A nameless grave - there is no stone Last Line: And such a nameless grave! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE NEGLECTED ONE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And there is silence in that lonely hall Last Line: And she is dead, -- her secret unreveal'd. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE NIZAM'S DAUGHTER, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is yet a child in years Last Line: Is a thrice-veiled shrine. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Girls THE OAK; A FRAGMENT, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the last survivor of a race Last Line: This oak has no companion!... Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Oak Trees THE OLD TIMES, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you recall what now is living only Last Line: The dear old times. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Past THE OMEN, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, how we miss the young and bright Last Line: The father beside his child was sleeping. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE ORIENTAL NOSEGAY, BY PICKERSGILL, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the light curtains came the perfumed air Last Line: Fling, fling the flowers away! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Flowers; Paintings & Painters THE PAINTER'S LOVE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your skies are blue, your sun is bright Last Line: When hearts they would have soothed are broken! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love; Paintings & Painters THE PAST, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weep for the love that fate forbids Last Line: To dream, despair, and die! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE PILGRIM'S TALE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have gone east, I have gone west Last Line: Apply its lesson as ye may. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE POET'S FIRST ESSAY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a fearful stake the poet casts Last Line: That only gives the laurel to the grave. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE POET'S LOT, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poet's lovely faith creates Last Line: The beauty of the rose. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE POET'S PAST, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remembrance makes the poet: 'tis the past Last Line: Only to know it is not of our sphere? Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Past; Poetry & Poets THE POLAR STAR, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A star has left the kindling sky Last Line: My heart to look for you. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Stars THE POOR, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Few, save the poor, feel for the poor Last Line: But with a sadder eye. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Poverty THE POWER OF WORDS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a strange mystery, the power of words! Last Line: A word is but a breath of passing air. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary THE PROPHETESS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the deep silence of the midnight hours Last Line: The wide world round us is one mighty tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE QUEEN OF CYPRUS: THE PROVENCAL LADY'S LAY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A summer isle, which seem'd to be Last Line: Nor tell whence that pilgrim minstrel came. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE RAKI, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's dust upon the distant wind, and shadow on the skies Last Line: Embalmed by poetry and love. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Chivalry; Gifts & Giving; India; Jewelry & Jewelers; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces THE RECORD, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sleeps, his head upon his sword Last Line: This was a hero's name. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Heroism; Heroes; Heroines THE REPLY OF THE FOUNTAIN, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How deep within each human heart Last Line: Itself with fantasies like these. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE RING: THE GERMAN MINNESINGER'S TALE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Both were young, and both were fair Last Line: As her heart had the misery it painted known. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE ROSE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, what a history is on the rose! Last Line: Unfolded to the earliest breath of june. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Flowers; Roses THE ROSE: THE ITALIAN MINSTREL'S TALE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The count gonfali held a feast that night Last Line: Less from a vision of earth than of heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE RUINED MIND, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Sad it is to see the deck Last Line: In their worst shape -- the ruined mind? Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE RUSH-BEARING AT AMBLESIDE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer is come, with her leaves and her flowers Last Line: Let us seek the green rush by the deep woodland springs. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Festivals; Flowers; Fairs; Pageants THE SAILOR, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Gloriously upon the deep Last Line: And where her sailor slept, there slept his mother! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails THE SEA-SHORE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I should like to dwell where the deep blue sea Last Line: And I ask no home but beside the deep. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore THE SECOND DAY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet spirit of delicious song Last Line: As he told his tale of high emprize. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE SHEPHERD BOY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like some vision olden Last Line: Lowly shepherd boy. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE SICK ROOM, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis midnight, and a starry shower Last Line: Of suffering, and of sorrow's room. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Sickness; Illness THE SLEEPING BEAUTY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep with honey-dews hath bound her Last Line: Soon it will mourn its rest forsaken! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Sleep THE SOLDIER'S FUNERAL, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the muffled drum rolled on the air Last Line: The father had pray'd o'er his only son! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Funerals; Soldiers; Burials THE SOLDIER'S GRAVE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a white stone placed upon yonder tomb Last Line: But who died on his own home-pillow! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Graves; Soldiers; Tombs; Tombstones THE SPANISH PAGE; OR, THE CITY'S RANSOM, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was a chieftain's daughter, and he a captive boy Last Line: The warrior spared the moorish town, for that dead maiden's sake. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE SULTAN'S REMONSTRANCE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It suits thee well to weep Last Line: For which thou dar'dst not die. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Cowardice THE TEMPLE GARDEN, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fountain's low singing is heard in the wind Last Line: Where sweep those dark branches of shadowy green! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening THE TROUBADOUR: CANTO 1, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call to mind your loveliest dream Last Line: Her heart was sole memorial. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE TROUBADOUR: CANTO 2, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first, the very first; oh! None Last Line: A sign and seal with thee and me! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE TROUBADOUR: CANTO 3, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Land of the olive and the vine Last Line: Of good or ill that could befall. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE TROUBADOUR: CANTO 4, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a wild and untrain'd bower Last Line: Like the dear love I had for thee! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE TWO DEATHS: 1. DEATH OF SIGURD, EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earl lay on his purple bed Last Line: And earl sigurd's life is done! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE TWO DEATHS: 2. DEATH OF CAMOENS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pale comes the moonlight thro' the lattice gleaming Last Line: Camoens, by thy grave! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Camoens, Luiz De (1524-1580); Death; Dead, The THE UNKNOWN GRAVE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a little lonely grave Last Line: The nameless poet hath a shrine. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE VALE OF LONSDALE, LANCASHIRE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could no tdwell here, it is all too fair Last Line: Between the placid scene, and its unrest. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Country Life; Lancashire, England THE VENETIAN BRACELET, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those subtle poisons which made science crime Last Line: "and, half effaced, a name -- ""amenaide." Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE VIOLET, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Violets! - deep-blue violets! Last Line: The bending and deep-blue violet! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Flowers; Violets THE VISIONARY AND THE TRUE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Waking dreams that mock the day Last Line: Cold, calm and stern, is truth. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE WARRIOR; A SKETCH, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The warrior went forth in the morning light Last Line: They bear the young chieftain cold on his bier! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE WOODLAND BROOK, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art flowing, thou art flowing Last Line: A deeper fondness o'er me steal. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE WORLD WITHIN, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a shadow on his face, that spake Last Line: Who could believe in what he knew was vain. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE WREATH, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, fling not down those faded flowers Last Line: To even faded bloom! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Memory THE WREATH: TALE OF THE MOORISH BARD, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earliest beauty of the rose Last Line: Land of hearth and home, aught to liken to thee. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Flowers THE WRONGS OF LOVE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, how bitter are the wrongs of love Last Line: For which there is no healing. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Complaints THE YOUNG AVENGER: THE SPANISH MINSTREL'S TALE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The warrior's strength is bow'd by age, the warrior's step is slow Last Line: As thus the minstrel sung his last. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia THE YOUNG POET'S FATE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trace the young poet's fate Last Line: His talents and his state! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE ZEGRI LADY'S VIGIL, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ever sits the lady weeping Last Line: Of the ladye weeping there. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE ZENANA; AN EASTERN TALE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is there that the world hath not Last Line: Recalled this tale of ancient time. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): India THOMAS MOORE, ESQ., by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If titania, just wakened from dreams which the rose Last Line: And to wish for her welfare is wishing for thine. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Moore, Thomas (1779-1852) THOUGHTS ON CHRISTMAS-DAY IN INDIA, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is christmas, and the sunshine Last Line: Is what I can feel no more. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Christmas; India; Nativity, The TO MY BROTHER, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you recall the fancies of many years ago Last Line: How much we loved his dangers, and how we mourned his fall! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails TO OLINTHUS GREGORY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is there a spot where pity's foot Last Line: Sees all life held most dear enshrined. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Death - Children; Drowning; Death - Babies TO THE MEMORY OF A FAVOURITE CHILD; THE DAUGHTER OF A FRIEND, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her voice is on the haunted air Last Line: An altar for my prayers and tears. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies TO THE QUEEN, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within the page, oh, royal ladye! - seeking Last Line: A nation breathes upon victoria's name! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) TOWN AND HARBOR OF ITHACA, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By another light surrounded Last Line: Where ulysses was the king. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Ithaca, Greece; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus UNAVAILING REGRET, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell! And when the charm of change Last Line: And sigh to think it is in vain. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia UNGUIDED WILL, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God, in thy mercy, keep us with thy hand! Last Line: Have sunk the deepest! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia VANITY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vanity! Guiding power, 'tis thine to rule Last Line: Each deems his task the glory of the world. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Vanity WAITING AT THE AIRPORT, by LUANN LANDON Poem Source First Line: Her face reflected in the bright-black pane Last Line: As lightly as the darkness takes the land WANT OF SYMPATHY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are the things that fret away the heart Last Line: How must she feel the chill! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Sympathy; Empathy WARNING, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pray thee, maiden, hear him not Last Line: Then, maiden! Read thy fate in mine. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia WAVE, WIND, AND BARK, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wave that wand'rest singing by Last Line: Bidding her: forget me not! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia WE MIGHT HAVE BEEN!, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We might have been! - these are but common words Last Line: We might have been. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia WEAKNESS ENDS WITH LOVE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I say not, regret me; you will not regret Last Line: It died with the sentence -- I love thee no more! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Loss Of WHAT IS SUCCESS?, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All things are symbols; and we find Last Line: Ere half its race be run. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Success WHEN SHOULD LOVERS BREATHE THEIR VOWS?, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia WIND, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind has a language, I would I could learn Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Wind YOUTH AND LOVE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young, loving, and beloved - these are brief words Last Line: Still it is much to think that it has been. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love; Youth |
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