Arts & Sciences
On Some Obscure Poetry
From Heroic Idyls (1863)
Arts & Sciences
In vain he beats his brow who thinks
To get the better of a Sphynx.
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MLA
Landor, Walter Savage. “On Some Obscure Poetry.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/236/.
Chicago
Landor, Walter Savage. “On Some Obscure Poetry.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/236/.
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