Love's Happiness
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
There are a thousand fanciful things
Link'd round the young heart's imaginings.
In its first love-dream, a leaf or a flower,
Is gifted then with a spell and a power ;
A shade is an omen, a dream is a sign,
From which the maiden can well divine
Passion's whole history. Those only can tell
Who have loved as young hearts can love so well,
How the pulses will beat, and the cheek will be dyed,
When they have some love augury tried.
Oh ! it is not for those whose feelings are cold,
Wither'd by care, or blunted by gold ;
Whose brows have darken'd with many years,
To feel again youth's hopes and fears —
What they now might blush to confess,
Yet what made their spring-day's happiness !
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Submitted by Madeleine Quinn on May 03, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 687 |
Words | 127 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
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