Nature

The Wall-flower

by Walter Savage Landor 1775–1864

From The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (1912)

Nature

The place where soon I think to lie,
In its old creviced nook hard-by
Rears many a weed:
If parties bring you there, will you
Drop silly in a grain or two
Of wall-flower seed?

I shall not see it, and (too sure!)
I shall not ever hear that your
Light step was there;
But the rich odour some fine day
Will, what I cannot do, repay
That little care.

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Landor, Walter Savage. “The Wall-flower.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/50/.

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