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Poems, Dialogues in Verse and Epigrams

By Walter Savage Landor: Edited with notes by Charles G. Crump

Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864)

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FIRST VOLUME DRAMATIC SCENES.

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SECOND VOLUME POEMS AND EPIGRAMS.

FROM THE PHOCÆANS.

POEMS AND EPIGRAMS CHIEFLY FROM THE COLLECTION OF 1846.

POEMS FROM PERICLES AND ASPASIA AND OTHER PROSE WORKS.

FROM THE LAST FRUIT OFF AN OLD TREE.

FROM DRY STICKS.

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HEROIC IDYLS, WITH ADDITIONAL POEMS.

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I. A FRIEND TO THEOCRITOS IN EGYPT.

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IV. TO THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH.

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VII.

VIII.

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IX. A FOREIGN RULER.

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XI.

XII.

XIII.

XIV.

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XVI.

XVII.

XVII. TO SIR RODERICK MURCHISON.

FROM THE HELLENICS.

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LXIV.

[When we have panted past life's middle space]

When we have panted past life's middle space,
And stand and breathe a moment from the race,
These graver thoughts the heaving breast annoy:
“Of all our fields how very few are green!
And ah! what brakes, moors, quagmires, lie between
Tired age and childhood ramping wild with joy.”