Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864). On His Seventy-fifth Birthday. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1909. The Book of Georgian Verse

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

On His Seventy-fifth Birthday

By Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)


I STROVE with none; for none was worth my strife,
Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art;
I warmed both hands before the fire of life,
It sinks, and I am ready to depart.