Gentleness Pictured
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
A gentle creature was that girl,
Meek, humble, and subdued;
Like some lone flower that has grown up
In woodland solitude.
Its soil has had but little care,
Its growth but little praise;
And down it droops the timid head
It has not strength to raise.
For other brighter blooms are round,
And they attract the eye ;
They seem the sunny favourites
Of summer, earth, and sky.
The human and the woodland flower
Hath yet a dearer part,—
The perfume of the hidden depths,
The sweetness at the heart.
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Submitted by Madeleine Quinn on July 17, 2016
Modified on March 14, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 479 |
Words | 90 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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