Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864). To Ianthe. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1909. The Book of Georgian Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909.

To Ianthe

By Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)


YOU smil’d, you spoke, and I believed,
By every word and smile deceived.
Another man would hope no more;
Nor hope I what I hoped before:
But let not this last wish be vain;	5
Deceive, deceive me once again!