Rose Aylmer's Hair, Given by Her Sister by Walter Savage Landor. Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. 1895. A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895

Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.

Rose Aylmer’s Hair, Given by Her Sister

Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)


BEAUTIFUL spoils! borne off from vanquish’d death!
Upon my heart’s high altar shall ye lie,
Mov’d but by only one adorer’s breath,
Retaining youth, rewarding constancy.