Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.
Walter Savage Landor 17751864Advice
Landor-WT
Is all you wish to do.
Play, sing, and smile for others, Rose!
Let others write for you.
And I will walk beside,
Until we reach that quiet bay
Which only hears the tide.
At distance bid me stand,
Before the cavern’d cliff, again
The creature of your hand.
To sketch me less in size;
There are but few content to look
So little in your eyes.
And wish for none beyond:
To some be gay, to some be grave,
To one (blest youth!) be fond.
And better unpossest!
Let poetry’s too throbbing vein
Lie quiet in your breast.