The improvisatrice; and other poems By L. E. L. [i.e. Landon] With embellishments. A new edition |
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WRITTEN UNDER A PICTURE OF A GIRL BURNING A LOVE LETTER.
The lines were filled with many a tender thing,
All the impassioned heart's fond communing.
All the impassioned heart's fond communing.
I took the scroll: I could not brook,
An eye to gaze on it save mine;
I could not bear another's look
Should dwell upon one thought of thine.
My lamp was burning by my side,
I held thy letter to the flame,
I marked the blaze swift o'er it glide,
It did not even spare thy name.
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I felt so sad to see it die,
So bright at first, so dark at last,
I feared it was love's history.
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