Epicurean by William James Linton. Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. 1895. A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895

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

Epicurean

William James Linton (1812–97)


IN Childhood’s unsuspicious hours
The fairies crown’d my head with flowers.

Youth came: I lay at Beauty’s feet;
She smil’d and said my song was sweet.

Then Age, and, Love no longer mine,	5
My brows I shaded with the vine.

With flowers and love and wine and song,
O Death! life hath not been too long.