Category: Poetry
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR was born on the 30th of January, 1775, and died at the age of eighty-nine in September, 1864. He was the eldest son of a physician at Warwick, and his second name, Savage, was the family name of his mother, who owned two estates in Warwickshire—Ipsley Cour...
_Sis._ To hold Covilla from me! To urge her into vows against her faith, Against her beauty, youth, and inclination, Without her mother’s blessing, nay without Her father’s know...
6. Chapter 6_Jul._ Not to thee, who reignest not, But to a country ever dear to me, And dearer now than ever: what we love Is loveliest in departure! One I thought, As every father thinks,...
9. Chapter 9_Egi._ He goes; he is afar; he follows her; He leads her to the altar, to the throne. For, calm in vengeance, wise in wickedness, The traitor hath prevailed, o’er him, o’er me,...
5. Chapter 5WHAT mortal first by adverse fate assailed, Trampled by tyranny or scoffed by scorn, Stung by remorse or wrung by poverty, Bade with fond sigh his native laud farewell? Wretched...
7. Chapter 7_Opas_. But if Roderigo have at length prevailed That Egilona willingly resigns All claim to royalty, and casts away, Indifferent or estranged, the marriage-bond His perjury tor...
3. Chapter 3OH, for the spirit of that matchless man Whom Nature led throughout her whole domain, While he embodied breathed etherial air! Though panting in the play-hour of my youth I dran...
4. Chapter 4ONCE a fair city, courted then by king, Mistress of nations, thronged by palaces, Raising her head o’er destiny, her face Glowing with pleasure and with palms refreshed, Now poi...
1. Chapter 1WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR was born on the 30th of January, 1775, and died at the age of eighty-nine in September, 1864. He was the eldest son of a physician at Warwick, and his secon...
2. Chapter 2THE Gadite men the royal charge obey. Now fragments weighed up from th’ uneven streets Leave the ground black beneath; again the sun Shines into what were porches, and on steps...