Landon in The Literary Gazette 1823/Stanzas 3

by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

For works with similar titles, see Stanzas (Letitia Elizabeth Landon).

Literary Gazette 8th November 1823, Page 719

STANZAS.

We shall not meet again, love,
    As we once met;
But our meetings have left
    What I may not forget:

A thought of the past,
    Like a ghost by a tomb,
A heart that is burning,
    A cheek without bloom.

As those who have dwelt
    In the lands of the Sun,
In the north fade and fall
    When the Winter 's begun;

So my spirit, whose life
    Was Love's passionate ray,
Must pine unto death
    When its warmth fades away!—L. E. L.