Arts & Sciences
Distribution of Honours for Literature
From Heroic Idyls (1863)
Arts & Sciences
The grandest writer of late ages
Who wrapt up Rome in golden pages,
Whom scarcely Livius equal' d, Gibbon,
Died without star or cross or ribbon.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Distribution of Honours for Literature.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/266/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Distribution of Honours for Literature.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/266/.
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