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Pleasure! Why Thus Desert the Heart
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Pleasure! why thus desert the heart
In its spring-tide?
I could have seen her, I could part,
And but have sigh'd!
O'er every youthful charm to stray,
To gaze, to touch....
Pleasure! why take so much away,
Or give so much?
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MLA
Landor, Walter Savage. “Pleasure! Why Thus Desert the Heart.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/1/.
Chicago
Landor, Walter Savage. “Pleasure! Why Thus Desert the Heart.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/1/.
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