Love
Confession of Jealousy
From Heroic Idyls (1863)
Love
Jealous, I own it, I was once.
That wickedness I here renounce.
I tried at wit.,. it would not do...
At tenderness... that fail'd me too.
Before me on each path there stood
The witty and the tender Hood.
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MLA
Landor, Walter Savage. “Confession of Jealousy.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/240/.
Chicago
Landor, Walter Savage. “Confession of Jealousy.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/240/.
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