As steals the dew along the flower,
So stole thy smile on me ;
I cannot tell the day, nor hour
I first loved thee ! - Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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As steals the dew along the flower, So stole thy smile on me ; I cannot tell the day, nor hour I first loved thee !
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (August 14, 1802 – October 15, 1838) was an English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L. E. L. She was one of the richest sources of epigrams in the early nineteenth century and one reviewer compared her to Rochefoucauld. Sometimes she adopts an adversarial role, giving contradictory viewpoints. Some of her thoughts recur, either developed or refined, but over time she also threw out differing opinions on some subjects; changeability, she argues, is one of our principal traits and, as she has one character remark, truth is like the philosopher's stone, a thing not to be discovered.
Leaves grow green to fall, Flowers grow fair to fade, Fruits grow ripe to rot — All but for passing made.
Statues to whose rest seem'd given Not the life of earth but heaven ; For each statue here enshrined What in the immortal mind Makes its beauty and its power — Genius's eternal dower :
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