English Poetry II: From Collins to Fitzgerald. The Harvard Classics. 190914. |
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| 543. Rose Aylmer |
| | | Walter Savage Landor (17751864) |
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| AH, what avails the sceptred race! | |
| Ah, what the form divine! | |
| What every virtue, every grace! | |
| Rose Aylmer, all were thine. | |
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| Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes | 5 |
| May weep, but never see, | |
| A night of memories and sighs | |
| I consecrate to thee. | |
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