Love
The Brightest Mind, When Sorrow Sweeps Across
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Love
The brightest mind, when sorrow sweeps across,
Becomes the gloomiest; so the stream, that ran
Clear as the light of heaven ere autumn closed,
When wintry storm and snow and sleet descend,
Is darker than the mountain or the moor.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “The Brightest Mind, When Sorrow Sweeps Across.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/423/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “The Brightest Mind, When Sorrow Sweeps Across.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/423/.
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