Landon in The New Monthly 1836/Subjects for Pictures

by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 47, Pages 175 to 179

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SUBJECTS FOR PICTURES.

BY L. E. L.

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What seek I here to gather into words?
The scenes that rise before me as I turn
The pages of old times. A word—a name—
Conjures the past before me, till it grows
More actual than the present: that—I see
But with the common eyes of daily life,
Imperfect and impatient; but the past
Out of imagination works its truth,
And grows distinct with poetry.

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