Letitia Elizabeth Landon was an English poet and novelist. She wrote poetry throughout the early 1820s. Some of her works include The Fate of Adelaide, A Swiss Romantic tale and other poems, Fragments in Rhyme, and Medallion Wafers. She also wrote reviews, anonymously, throughout her career.
‘Captain Cook (To My Brother)’ by Letitia Elizabeth Landon reflects on the loss of childhood and how emotional looking back on the past is.
Do you recall the fancies of many years ago,
When the pulse danced those light measure that again it cannot know!
Ah! We both of us are alter’d, and now we talk no more
Of all the old creations that haunted us of yore.
‘Revenge’ explores scorn, desire for retribution, and cruel satisfaction emerging from unrequited love and betrayal.
Ay, gaze upon her rose-wreathed hair,
And gaze upon her smile;
Seem as you drank the very air
Her breath perfumed the while:
‘Secrets’ describes the natural human affinity for the sorrows of the world and how one may be changed by their own interior “misery.”
LIFE has dark secrets; and the hearts are few
That treasure not some sorrow from the world—
A sorrow silent, gloomy, and unknown,
Yet colouring the future from the past.
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