English Poetry. Walter Savage Landor. Pleasure! Why Thus Desert the Heart. Уолтер Сэвидж Лэндор.

Walter Savage Landor (Уолтер Сэвидж Лэндор)

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Pleasure! why thus desert the heart
    In its spring-tide?
I could have seen her, I could part,
    And but have sigh'd!

O'er every youthful charm to stray,
    To gaze, to touch....
Pleasure! why take so much away,
    Or give so much?

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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