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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)

1.

FIRST VOLUME DRAMATIC SCENES.

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2.

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.

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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.

III.

IV.

V.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

X.

XI.

XI. TO AN OLD MULBERRY TREE.

XII.

XIII.

XIII. THE DUKE OF YORK'S STATUE.

XIV.

XV.

XVI.

XVII.

XVIII.

XVIII. THE DEATH OF MADAME ROLAND.

XIX.

XX.

XX. ROSE AYLMER'S HAIR, GIVEN BY HER SISTER.

XXI.

XXI. THE ONE GRAVE.

XXII.

XXIII.

XXIV.

XXIV. ON SOUTHEY'S BIRTHDAY, NOV. 4.

XXV.

XXVI.

XXVII.

XXVIII.

XXVIII. TO A CHILD.

XXIX.

XXX.

XXXI.

XXXI. NIL ADMIRARI, ETC.

XXXII.

XXXII. JUNE '51.

XXXIII.

XXXIII. TO THE COUNTESS DE MOLANDÈ.

XXXIV.

FROM DRY STICKS.

HEROIC IDYLS, WITH ADDITIONAL POEMS.

FROM THE HELLENICS.

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CX. ON RECEIVING A PORTRAIT.

To gaze on you when life's last gleams decline,
And hold your hand, to the last clasp, in mine . .

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Of these two wishes, these my only two,
One has been granted, gentle maid, by you:
Were thus the other certain, I should go,
And leave but one man happier here below.