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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.
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GEBIR.
  
FROM THE PHOCÆANS.
  
CHRYSAOR.
  
REGENERATION.
  
TO CORINTH.
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POEMS AND EPIGRAMS CHIEFLY FROM THE COLLECTION OF 1846.
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POEMS FROM PERICLES AND ASPASIA AND OTHER PROSE WORKS.
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FROM THE LAST FRUIT OFF AN OLD TREE.
  
[I strove with none; for none was worth my strife]
 I. 
I. ON CATULLUS.
 II. 
II.
 III. 
III.
 IV. 
IV.
 V. 
V.
 VI. 
VI.
 VII. 
VII.
 VIII. 
VIII. YOUNG.
 IX. 
IX.
 X. 
X.
 XI. 
XI. TO AN OLD MULBERRY TREE.
 XII. 
XII.
 XIII. 
XIII. THE DUKE OF YORK'S STATUE.
 XIV. 
XIV.
 XV. 
XV.
 XVI. 
XVI.
 XVII. 
XVII.
 XVIII. 
XVIII. THE DEATH OF MADAME ROLAND.
 XIX. 
XIX.
 XX. 
XX. ROSE AYLMER'S HAIR, GIVEN BY HER SISTER.
 XXI. 
XXI. THE ONE GRAVE.
 XXII. 
XXII.
 XXIII. 
XXIII.
 XXIV. 
XXIV. ON SOUTHEY'S BIRTHDAY, NOV. 4.
 XXV. 
XXV.
 XXVI. 
XXVI.
 XXVII. 
XXVII.
 XXVIII. 
XXVIII. TO A CHILD.
 XXIX. 
XXIX.
 XXX. 
XXX.
 XXXI. 
XXXI. NIL ADMIRARI, ETC.
 XXXII. 
XXXII. JUNE '51.
 XXXIII. 
XXXIII. TO THE COUNTESS DE MOLANDÈ.
 XXXIV. 
XXXIV. YOUTH.
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VARIOUS.
 XXXV. 
XXXV.
 XXXVI. 
XXXVI. LOSS OF MEMORY.
 XXXVII. 
XXXVII. TO THE NIGHTINGALE.
 XXXVIII. 
XXXVIII. ROLAND.
 XXXIX. 
XXXIX. CORDAY.
 XL. 
XL. JANE OF ARC.
 XLI. 
XLI. ON THE STATUE OF EBENEZER ELLIOTT BY NEVILLE BURNARD, ORDERED BY THE WORKING MEN OF SHEFFIELD.
 XLII. 
XLII. ODE TO SICILY.
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XLIII. GONFALIONIERI.
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I.
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II.
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III.
 IV. 
IV.
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XLIV. TO FRANCIS HARE, BURIED AT PALERMO, ON THE INSURRECTION OF SICILY AND NAPLES.
 XLV. 
XLV. TO SAINT CHARLES BORROMEO, ON THE MASSACRE AT MILAN.
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XLVI.
 XLVII. 
XLVII. DANTE.
 XLVIII. 
XLVIII.
 XLIX. 
XLIX.
 L. 
L. ON THE SLAUGHTER OF THE BROTHERS BANDIERI, BETRAYED TO THE KING OF NAPLES.
 LI. 
LI. TO YOUTH.
 LII. 
LII. TO AGE.
 LIII. 
LIII. TYRANNICIDE.
 LIV. 
LIV. ON THE APPROACH OF A SISTER'S DEATH.
 LV. 
LV. ON SWIFT JOINING AVON NEAR RUGBY.
 LVI. 
LVI.
 LVII. 
LVII. SHAKESPEARE AND MILTON.
 LVIII. 
LVIII. TO MIDSUMMER DAY.
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LIX. TO SHELLEY.
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LX. WRITTEN AT HURSTMONCEAUX.
 LXI. 
LXI.
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EPISTLES.
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FROM DRY STICKS.
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HEROIC IDYLS, WITH ADDITIONAL POEMS.
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FROM THE HELLENICS.

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VII.

[Ye who have toil'd uphill to reach the haunt]

Ye who have toil'd uphill to reach the haunt
Of other men who lived in other days,
Whether the ruins of a citadel
Raised on the summit by Pelasgic hands,
Or chamber of the distaff and the song . .
Ye will not tell what treasure there ye found,
But I will.
Ye found there the viper laid
Full-length, flat-headed, on a sunny slab,
Nor loth to hiss at ye while crawling down.
Ye saw the owl flap the loose ivy-leaves
And, hooting, shake the berries on your heads.
Now, was it worth your while to mount so high
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Merely to say you did it, and to ask
If those about you ever did the like?
Believe me, O my friends, 'twere better far
To stretch your limbs along the level sand
As they do, where small children scoop the drift,
Thinking it must be gold, where curlews soar
And scales drop glistening from the prey above.
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