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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)

FIRST VOLUME DRAMATIC SCENES.

SECOND VOLUME POEMS AND EPIGRAMS.

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.

I. ON LAW.

II.

II. MACAULAY'S PEERAGE.

III.

IV.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

VIII. APOLOGY FOR GEBIR.

IX.

IX. DEATH OF THE DAY.

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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LII. TO AGE.

Welcome, old friend! These many years
Have we lived door by door:
The Fates have laid aside their shears
Perhaps for some few more.

I was indocil at an age
When better boys were taught,
But thou at length hast made me sage,
If I am sage in aught.

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Little I know from other men,
Too little they from me,
But thou hast pointed well the pen
That writes these lines to thee.

Thanks for expelling Fear and Hope,
One vile, the other vain;
One's scourge, the other's telescope,
I shall not see again:

Rather what lies before my feet
My notice shall engage . .
He who hath braved Youth's dizzy heat
Dreads not the frost of Age.