Love
On Receiving a Portrait
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Love
To gaze on T)u when life's last gleams decline,
And hold your hand, to the last clasp, in mine . .
Of these two wishes, these my only two,
One has been granted, gentle maid, by you:
Were thus the other certain, I should go,
And leave but one man happier here below.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “On Receiving a Portrait.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/397/.
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