Poetical Fragments from Ethel Churchill Volume II/Unavailing Regret

by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

CHAPTER XIV.

UNAVAILING REGRET.

Farewell! and when the charm of change
    Has sunk, as all must sink, in shade;
When joy, a wearied bird, begins
    The wing to droop, the plume to fade;

When thou thyself, at length, hast felt
    What thou hast made another feel—
The hope that sickens to despair,
    The wound that time may sear, not heal;

When thou shalt pine for some fond heart
    To beat in answering thine again;—
Then, false one, think once more on me,
    And sigh to think it is in vain.

In Blanchard

From Leonora in Heath’s Book of Beauty, 1833

In the Bouquet (1846), under (Geranium-Scarlet) Pelargonium inquinans as Thou art changed