Love
Deep Forests Hide the Stoutest Oaks
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Love
Deep forests hide the stoutest oaks;
Hazels make sticks for market-folks;
He who comes soon to his estate
Dies poor; the rich heir is the late.
Sere ivy shaded Shakespeare's brow;
But Matho is a poet now.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Deep Forests Hide the Stoutest Oaks.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/490/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Deep Forests Hide the Stoutest Oaks.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/490/.
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