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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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XVII.

[God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers]

God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers
O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours.
A hundred lights in every temple burn,
And at each shrine I bend my knee in turn.