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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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III.

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IV. TO THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH.

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VI.

VII.

VIII.

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IX. A FOREIGN RULER.

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XI.

XII.

XIII.

XIV.

XV.

XVI.

XVII.

XVII. TO SIR RODERICK MURCHISON.

FROM THE HELLENICS.

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CLXXXIII.

[Deep forests hide the stoutest oaks]

Deep forests hide the stoutest oaks;
Hazels make sticks for market-folks;
He who comes soon to his estate
Dies poor; the rich heir is the late.
Sere ivy shaded Shakespeare's brow;
But Matho is a poet now.