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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.
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GEBIR.
  
FROM THE PHOCÆANS.
  
CHRYSAOR.
  
REGENERATION.
  
TO CORINTH.
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POEMS AND EPIGRAMS CHIEFLY FROM THE COLLECTION OF 1846.
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POEMS FROM PERICLES AND ASPASIA AND OTHER PROSE WORKS.
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FROM THE LAST FRUIT OFF AN OLD TREE.
  
[I strove with none; for none was worth my strife]
 I. 
I. ON CATULLUS.
 II. 
II.
 III. 
III.
 IV. 
IV.
 V. 
V.
 VI. 
VI.
 VII. 
VII.
 VIII. 
VIII. YOUNG.
 IX. 
IX.
 X. 
X.
 XI. 
XI. TO AN OLD MULBERRY TREE.
 XII. 
XII.
 XIII. 
XIII. THE DUKE OF YORK'S STATUE.
 XIV. 
XIV.
 XV. 
XV.
 XVI. 
XVI.
 XVII. 
XVII.
 XVIII. 
XVIII. THE DEATH OF MADAME ROLAND.
 XIX. 
XIX.
 XX. 
XX. ROSE AYLMER'S HAIR, GIVEN BY HER SISTER.
 XXI. 
XXI. THE ONE GRAVE.
 XXII. 
XXII.
 XXIII. 
XXIII.
 XXIV. 
XXIV. ON SOUTHEY'S BIRTHDAY, NOV. 4.
 XXV. 
XXV.
 XXVI. 
XXVI.
 XXVII. 
XXVII.
 XXVIII. 
XXVIII. TO A CHILD.
 XXIX. 
XXIX.
 XXX. 
XXX.
 XXXI. 
XXXI. NIL ADMIRARI, ETC.
 XXXII. 
XXXII. JUNE '51.
 XXXIII. 
XXXIII. TO THE COUNTESS DE MOLANDÈ.
 XXXIV. 
XXXIV. YOUTH.
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VARIOUS.
 XXXV. 
XXXV.
 XXXVI. 
XXXVI. LOSS OF MEMORY.
 XXXVII. 
XXXVII. TO THE NIGHTINGALE.
 XXXVIII. 
XXXVIII. ROLAND.
 XXXIX. 
XXXIX. CORDAY.
 XL. 
XL. JANE OF ARC.
 XLI. 
XLI. ON THE STATUE OF EBENEZER ELLIOTT BY NEVILLE BURNARD, ORDERED BY THE WORKING MEN OF SHEFFIELD.
 XLII. 
XLII. ODE TO SICILY.
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XLIII. GONFALIONIERI.
 XLIV. 
XLIV. TO FRANCIS HARE, BURIED AT PALERMO, ON THE INSURRECTION OF SICILY AND NAPLES.
 XLV. 
XLV. TO SAINT CHARLES BORROMEO, ON THE MASSACRE AT MILAN.
 XLVI. 
XLVI.
 XLVII. 
XLVII. DANTE.
 XLVIII. 
XLVIII.
 XLIX. 
XLIX.
 L. 
L. ON THE SLAUGHTER OF THE BROTHERS BANDIERI, BETRAYED TO THE KING OF NAPLES.
 LI. 
LI. TO YOUTH.
 LII. 
LII. TO AGE.
 LIII. 
LIII. TYRANNICIDE.
 LIV. 
LIV. ON THE APPROACH OF A SISTER'S DEATH.
 LV. 
LV. ON SWIFT JOINING AVON NEAR RUGBY.
 LVI. 
LVI.
 LVII. 
LVII. SHAKESPEARE AND MILTON.
 LVIII. 
LVIII. TO MIDSUMMER DAY.
 LIX. 
LIX. TO SHELLEY.
 LX. 
LX. WRITTEN AT HURSTMONCEAUX.
 LXI. 
LXI.
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EPISTLES.
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FROM DRY STICKS.
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HEROIC IDYLS, WITH ADDITIONAL POEMS.
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FROM THE HELLENICS.

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LXIX.

[I would invoke you once again]

I would invoke you once again,
Pale shades of gloomy Walcheren,
By every name most dear!
But every name what voice could call?
What tears could flow enough for all,
Within the circling year?
Yet comfort ye, illustrious band,
That might have saved your native land
Had life and health remain'd!
Who cast ye on those sands accurst?
Traitor! he sold his country first
And gave her up enchain'd.
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No human power the wretch shall screen
That sent you to the misty scene,
Where glory never shone!
His vacant buoyant heart shall rue
The lingering death he brought on you
And wish that death his own.
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