Arts & Sciences

Why Do the Graces Now Desert the Muse?

by Walter Savage Landor 1775–1864

From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)

Arts & Sciences

Why do the Graces now desert the Muse?
They hate bright ribbons tying wooden shoes.

MLA

Landor, Walter Savage. “Why Do the Graces Now Desert the Muse?” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/617/.

Chicago

Landor, Walter Savage. “Why Do the Graces Now Desert the Muse?” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/617/.

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