F?sulan Idyl by Walter Savage Landor
F?sulan Idyl by Walter Savage Landor Here, where precipitate Spring with one light bound Into hot Summer’s lusty arms expires; And where go forth at morn, at eve, at night, Soft airs, that want the lute to play with them, And softer sighs, that know not what they want; Under a wall, beneath an orange-tree […]
Finis by Walter Savage Landor
Finis by Walter Savage Landor I STROVE with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm’d both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart. ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem © Poetry Monster, 2021. Poems by […]
Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher by Walter Savage Landor
Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher by Walter Savage Landor I strove with none, for none was worth my strife: Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art: I warm’d both hands before the fire of Life; It sinks; and I am ready to depart. ————— The End And that’s the End of the Poem […]
Alciphron and Leucippe by Walter Savage Landor
Alciphron and Leucippe by Walter Savage Landor An ancient chestnut’s blossoms threw Their heavy odour over two: Leucippe, it is said, was one; The other, then, was Alciphron. ‘Come, come! why should we stand beneath?’ This hollow tree’s unwholesome breath?’ Said Alciphron, ‘here’s not a blade Of grass or moss, and scanty shade. Come; it […]
Acon and Rhodope by Walter Savage Landor
Acon and Rhodope by Walter Savage Landor 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 For festival, some reckless of attire. The snow had left the mountain-top; fresh flowers Had withered in the meadow; fig and prune Hung wrinkling; the […]