Arts & Sciences

Remonstrance and Advice to Byron

by Walter Savage Landor 1775–1864

From Heroic Idyls (1863)

Arts & Sciences

Say, Byron, why is thy attar
Profusely dasht with vinegar ?
Each of them in its place is good,
But neither fit for daily food.
Open thy latticed window wide
For breezes from the Aegaean tide ;
And from Hymettus may its bee
Bear honey on each wing to thee :
But keep apart these two perfumes
For hospitals and drawing-rooms.

Now one more counsel : let alone
The fatty that outflanks the throne,
Nor fancy you can cure a leper
With poultices of cayenne-pepper.

MLA

Landor, Walter Savage. “Remonstrance and Advice to Byron.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/187/.

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Landor, Walter Savage. “Remonstrance and Advice to Byron.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/187/.

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