English Poetry. Walter Savage Landor. Past Ruin’d Ilion Helen Lives. Уолтер Сэвидж Лэндор.

Walter Savage Landor (Уолтер Сэвидж Лэндор)

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Past ruin'd Ilion Helen lives,
  Alcestis rises from the shades;
Verse calls them forth; 'tis verse that gives
  Immortal youth to mortal maids.

Soon shall Oblivion's deepening veil
  Hide all the peopled hills you see,
The gay, the proud, while lovers hail
  These many summers you and me.

Walter Savage Landor’s other poems:

1. Ternissa! You Are Fled!
2. To Barry Cornwall
3. The Gates of Fame and of the Grave
4. Twenty Years Hence My Eyes May Grow
5. Fiesole Idyl

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