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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.

XVII.

XVII. TO SIR RODERICK MURCHISON.

FROM THE HELLENICS.

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The purest breast that breathes Ausonian air,
Utter'd these words. Hear them, all lands! repeat
All ages! on thy heart the record bear
Till the last tyrant gasp beneath thy feet,
Thou who hast seen in quiet death lie down
The skulking recreant of the changeling crown.