Poetical Fragments from Ethel Churchill Volume II/Love

by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

For works with similar titles, see Love.

CHAPTER XXIV.

AN ACT OF PARLIAMENT.

Love is a thing of frail and delicate growth;
Soon checked, soon fostered; feeble, and yet strong:
It will endure much, suffer long, and bear
What would weigh down an angel's wing to earth,
And yet mount heavenward; but not the less
It dieth of a word, a look, a thought;
And when it dies, it dies without a sign
To tell how fair it was in happier hours:
It leaves behind reproaches and regrets,
And bitterness within affection's well,
For which there is no healing.

Blanchard’s title is:

LOVE

First 8 lines, in the Bouquet (1846), under (Laurustinus) Viburnum tinus as I die if neglected