Living
Early I Thought the Worst of Lies
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Living
Early I thought the worst of lies
In poets was, that beauty dies;
I thought not only it must stay,
But glow the brighter every day:
Some who then bloom'd on earth are gone,
In some the bloom is overblown.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Early I Thought the Worst of Lies.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/560/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Early I Thought the Worst of Lies.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/560/.
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