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"Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee."
Walter Savage Landor / Rose Aylmer.

Rose Aylmer.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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"Wearers of rings and chains! Pray do not take the pains To set me right. In vain my faults ye quote; I write as others wrote On Sunium's hight."
Walter Savage Landor / The last Fruit of an old Tree. Epigram cvi.

The last Fruit of an old Tree. Epigram cvi.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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"Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's,-- Therefore on him no speech! And brief for thee, Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale, No man hath walk'd along our roads with steps So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue So varied in discourse."
Walter Savage Landor / To Robert Browning.

To Robert Browning.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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"The Siren waits thee, singing song for song."
Walter Savage Landor / To Robert Browning.

To Robert Browning.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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"But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked His chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave: Shake one, and it awakens; then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there."
Walter Savage Landor / Gebir. Book i. (1798).

Gebir. Book i. (1798).

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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"I strove with none, for none was worth my strife; Nature I loved; and next to Nature, Art. I warm'd both hands against the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart."
Walter Savage Landor / Dying Speech of an old Philosopher.

Dying Speech of an old Philosopher.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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