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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.

FROM THE LAST FRUIT OFF AN OLD TREE.

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FROM DRY STICKS.

I.

II.

II. MACAULAY'S PEERAGE.

III.

IV.

IV. TO A CYCLAMEN.

V.

V. TO THE CYCLAMEN.

VI.

VI. HEART'S-EASE.

VII.

VII. HOW TO READ ME.

VIII.

VIII. APOLOGY FOR GEBIR.

IX.

IX. DEATH OF THE DAY.

X.

X. ON SOUTHEY'S DEATH.

XI.

XI. GORE-HOUSE LEFT FOR PARIS.

XII.

XII. THE THREE ROSES.

XIII.

XIII. THE LAST GIFT.

XIV.

XIV. LA PENSIEROSA.

XV.

XV. THE FIG-TREES OF GHERARDESCA.

HEROIC IDYLS, WITH ADDITIONAL POEMS.

FROM THE HELLENICS.

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CXI.

[Beauty's pure native gems, ye quivering hairs!]

Beauty's pure native gems, ye quivering hairs!
Once mingled with my own,
While soft desires, ah me! were all the cares
Two idle hearts had known.

How is it, when I take ye from the shrine
Which holds one treasure yet,
That ye, now all of Nancy that is mine,
Shrink from my fond regret?

Ye leaves that droop not with the plant that bore ye,
Start ye before my breath?
Shrink ye from tender Love who would adore ye,
O ye who fear not Death!