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Landon in The Literary Gazette 1820/The Bee

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Landon in The Literary Gazette 1820 (1820)
by Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Untitled - The bee, when varying flowers are nigh

This poem appears at the end of The Fate of Adelaide and other Poems as 'Addressed to —'

2252746Landon in The Literary Gazette 1820Untitled - The bee, when varying flowers are nigh1820Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Literary Gazette, 21st October, 1820, Page 685

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The bee, when varying flowers are nigh,
On many a sweet will careless dwell;
Just sips their dew, and then will fly
Again to its own fragrant cell:—
Thus tho’ my heart, by fancy led,
A wanderer for a while may be,
Yet soon returning whence it fled,
It comes more fondly back to thee.
L.