Poems, Dialogues in Verse and Epigrams By Walter Savage Landor: Edited with notes by Charles G. Crump |
 | 1. |
|
 | 1. |
| 2. |
| 3. |
| 4. |
| 5. |
|
|
|
|
| 2. |
 | Poems, Dialogues in Verse and Epigrams |  |
LXXVIII. FOR AN URN IN THORESBY PARK.
With frigid art our numbers flowFor joy unfelt and fabled woe;
And listless are the poet's dreams
Of pastoral pipe and haunted streams.
All Nature's boundless reign is theirs,
But most her triumphs and her tears.
They try, nor vainly try, their power
To cheer misfortune's lonely hour;
Whether they raise the laurell'd head,
Or stoop beneath the peasant's shed,
They pass the glory they bestow,
122
To Valour, in his car of fire,
Shall Genius strike the solemn lyre:
A Riou's fall shall Manvers mourn,
And Virtue raise the vacant urn.
| Poems, Dialogues in Verse and Epigrams | |