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Walter Savage Landor
1775 - 1864
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A Ballad Of The Trees And The Master
Into the woods my Master went, / Clean forspent, forspent. / Into the woods my Master came,
A Pastoral
Damon was sitting in the grove / With Phyllis, and protesting love; / And she was listening; but no word
A Prophecy
Proud word you never spoke, but you will speak / Four not exempt from pride some future day. / Resting on one white hand a warm wet cheek,
Acon And Rhodope
The Year's twelve daughters had in turn gone by, / Of measured pace tho' varying mien all twelve, / Some froward, some sedater, some adorn'd
Advice
To write as your sweet mother does / Is all you wish to do. / Play, sing, and smile for others, Rose!
Age
Death, tho' I see him not, is near / And grudges me my eightieth year. / Now, I would give him all these last
Ah what avails the sceptred race,
Ah what avails the sceptred race, / Ah what the form divine! / What every virtue, every grace!
Alciphron And Leucippe
An ancient chestnut’s blossoms threw / Their heavy odour over two: / Leucippe, it is said, was one;
An Invocation
We are what suns and winds and waters make us; / The mountains are our sponsors, and the rills / Fashion and win their nursling with their smiles.
Child Of A Day
Child of a day, thou knowest not / The tears that overflow thy urn, / The gushing eyes that read thy lot,
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