Love
Love, Hope, and Beauty
From The Improvisatrice and Other Poems (1824)
Love
LOVE may be increased by fears,
May be fanned with sighs,
Nurst by fancies, fed by doubts;
But without Hope it dies!
As in the far Indian isles
Dies the young cocoa-tree,
Unless within the pleasant shade
Of the parent plant it be:
So Love may spring up at first,
Lighted at Beauty's eyes; —
But Beauty is not all its life,
For without Hope it dies.
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MLA
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L.E.L.). “Love, Hope, and Beauty.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landon_le/28/.
Chicago
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L.E.L.). “Love, Hope, and Beauty.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landon_le/28/.
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