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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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IV. TO THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH.

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VII.

VIII.

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IX. A FOREIGN RULER.

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XI.

XII.

XIII.

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XVI.

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XVII. TO SIR RODERICK MURCHISON.

FROM THE HELLENICS.

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CUPID TEARING A ROSE-BUD.

Ah, Cupid! Cupid! let alone
That bud above the rest:
The Graces wear it in their zone,
Thy mother on her breast.
Does it not grieve thee to destroy
So beautiful a flower?
If thou must do it, cruel boy,
Far distant be the hour!
If the sweet bloom (so tinged with fire
From thy own torch) must die,
Let it, O generous Love! expire
Beneath a lover's sigh.