Please explain the meaning of the poem "Revenge" by Letitia Elizabeth Landon.

The poem
Revenge by the 19th-century English poet Letitia Elizabeth Landon expresses
the vindication of a scorned lover. The poem begins by recognizing the speaker's former lover's
appreciation of her rival's attributes:

Ay, gaze upon
her rose-wreathed hair,

And gaze upon her smile;

Seem as you drank the very air

Her breath perfumed the
while

By immediately presenting her rival as worthy of
attentionthrough images such as "rose-wreathed hair" and "breath
perfumed"the speaker perfectly sets up her cutting observation in the poem's third
stanza:

The eye averted as you passd,

Spoke more than words could speak.

What could be
more fitting of a revenge than watching he who rejected her, rejected by his new object of
admiration?

This satisfaction is mitigated, however, by the speaker's
benevolent nature:

I would not wish to see you
laid

Within an early tomb;

I should forget how you
betrayd,

And only weep your doom:

Her love, even though she was wronged, is not easily diminished. Thoughts of
her...

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