Love

Ianthe's Letter

by Walter Savage Landor 1775–1864

From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)

Love

We will not argue, if you say
My sorrows when I went away
Were not for you alone;
For there were many very dear,
Altho' at dawn they came not near,
As you did, yet who griev'd when I was gone.
We will not argue (but why tell
So false a tale?) that scarcely fell
My tears where mostly due.
I can not think who told you so:
I shed (about the rest I know
Nothing at all) the first and last for you.

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Landor, Walter Savage. “Ianthe's Letter.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/324/.

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Landor, Walter Savage. “Ianthe's Letter.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/324/.

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