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"Death stands above me, whispering low
I know not what into my ear;"
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864), British poet. Death Stands above Me (l. 1-2). . .
Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.). |
"O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet."
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864), British author, poet. "Epicurus, Leontion, and Ternissa," Imaginary Conversations (1824-1829). |
"I warmed both hands before the fire of life;
It sinks, and I am ready to depart."
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864), British author. Finis. |
"I have since written what no tide
Shall ever wash away, what men
Unborn shall read o'er ocean wide
And find Ianthe's name agen."
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864), British poet. Ianthe (l. 3-4). . .
Oxford Book of Nineteenth-Century English Verse, The. John Hayward, ed. (1964; reprinted, with corrections, 1965) Oxford University Press. |
"From you, Ianthe, little troubles pass
Like little ripples down a sunny river;"
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864), British poet. Ianthe (l. 1-6). . .
New Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1950. Helen Gardner, ed. (1972) Oxford University Press. |
"Verse calls them forth; 'tis verse that gives
Immortal youth to mortal maids."
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864), British poet. Ianthe (l. 3-4). . .
New Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1950. Helen Gardner, ed. (1972) Oxford University Press. |
"Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose."
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864), British author. Imaginary Conversations, "Archdeacon Hare and Walter Landor," The Last Fruit of an Old Tree (1853). |
"And about her courts were seen
Liveried angels robed in green,
Wearing, by St Patrick's bounty,
Emeralds big as half the county."
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864), British poet. Ireland Never Was Contented (l. 7-10). . .
Oxford Book of Short Poems, The. P. J. Kavanagh and James Michie, eds. Oxford University Press. |
"My slumber broken and my doublet torn,
I find the laurel also bears a thorn."
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864), British poet. Lately Our Poets (l. 9-10). . .
Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.). |
"Lately our poets loiter'd in green lanes,
Content to catch the ballads of the plains;"
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864), British poet. Lately Our Poets (l. 1-2). . .
Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.). |
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