Landon in The Literary Gazette 1825/Song 3

by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

For works with similar titles, see Song (Letitia Elizabeth Landon).

Literary Gazette, 23rd April, 1825, Page 268

ORIGINAL POETRY.
SONG.

My heart is wholly changed.

My heart is wholly changed
    From what it was to me,
Altho' I scarce may say
    In what that change can be.

'Tis not from faded hope;
    For all that hope could seem,
Has been realized for me
    Beyond its wildest dream.

Nor yet is it that love
    Has lighted up my heart;
In the fears and cares of love,
    As yet I have no part:

For far too light a spirit,
    And too cold a breast is mine,
For Love to fix on me
    As his dwelling place and shrine.

But I am sad to think
    Upon life's summer scene,—
To think upon what is,
    And upon what has been:

To think how friends deceive,
    To think how foes can feign;
And how the heart's best gifts
    Are given but in vain;

To think that tears are false,
    To think the same of smiles,
To think that honeyed words
    The trusting one beguiles:

Of sorrow, like a blight,
    Falling on youth and bloom;
To think upon the broken heart,
    On sickness and the tomb:

And knowing what I know,
    And seeing what I see,
How can I marvel that my heart
    Is changed and sad to me.

⁠L. E. L.