What is Success?
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
All things are symbols; and we find
In morning's lovely prime,
The actual history of the mind
In its own early time:
So, to the youthful poet's gaze,
A thousand colours rise,—
The beautiful which soon decays.
The buoyant which soon dies.
So does not die their influence,
The spirit owns the spell;
Memory to him is music—hence
The magic of his shell.
He sings of general hopes and fears—
A universal tone;
All weep with him, for in his tears
They recognise their own.
Yet many a one, whose lute hangs now
High on the laurel tree.
Feels that the cypress' dark bough
A fitter meed would be :
And still with weariness and wo
The fatal gift is won;
Many a radiant head lies low,
Ere half its race be run.
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Submitted by Madeleine Quinn on December 02, 2016
Modified by Madeleine Quinn on March 04, 2020
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 748 |
Words | 133 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
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