Poems, Dialogues in Verse and Epigrams By Walter Savage Landor: Edited with notes by Charles G. Crump |
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CCXXIII. TO EMMA ISOLA.
Etrurian domes, Pelasgian walls,
Sive fountains, with their nymphs around,
Terraced and citron-scented halls,
Skies smiling upon scented walls;
Sive fountains, with their nymphs around,
Terraced and citron-scented halls,
Skies smiling upon scented walls;
The giant Alps, averse to France,
Pant with impatient pride to those,
Calling the Briton to advance
Amid eternal rocks and snows.
Pant with impatient pride to those,
Calling the Briton to advance
Amid eternal rocks and snows.
I dare not bid him stay behind,
I dare not tell him where to see
The fairest form, the purest mind,
Ansomia! that ere sprang from thee.
I dare not tell him where to see
The fairest form, the purest mind,
Ansomia! that ere sprang from thee.
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