Poems of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in Forget Me Not, 1828/I gave thee love

by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Also sourced from the New York Mirror and Ladies’ Literary Gazette.
Page 160, 24th November 1827

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I GAVE THEE, LOVE.

BY MISS LANDON

I gave thee, love, a snow-white wreath
    Of lilies for thy raven hair;
Alas! that now another’s gift,
    Rubies and gold, should glitter there.

I saw this morn that lily wreath
    Neglected thrown upon the ground,
And then I saw upon thy brow
    The chaplet of those rubies bound.

’Tis no new passion, no new face,
    Hath won thy fickle heart from me;
That I had better borne than know
    That gold hath wrought this change in thee.