Love
The Touch of Love Dispels the Gloom
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Love
The touch of Love dispels the gloom
Of life, and animates the tomb;
But never let it idly flare
On gazers in the open air,
Nor turn it quite away from one
To whom it serves for moon and sun,
And who alike in night or day
Without it could not find his way.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “The Touch of Love Dispels the Gloom.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/285/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “The Touch of Love Dispels the Gloom.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/285/.
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