Love
Bidden by Hope the Sorrowful and Fond
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Love
Bidden by Hope the sorrowful and fond
Look o'er the present hour for hours beyond.
Some press, some saunter on, until at last
They reach that chasm which none who breathe hath past.
Before them Death starts up, and opens wide
His wings, and wafts them to the farther side.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Bidden by Hope the Sorrowful and Fond.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/621/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Bidden by Hope the Sorrowful and Fond.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/621/.
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