Arts & Sciences
If Wits and Poets, Two or Three
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Arts & Sciences
If wits and poets, two or three,
Four at the most, speak well of me,
It is because my lonely path
Lies hidden by the hills of Bath.
Neighbours who stir one step from prose
Become inevitable foes.
Poetic steamers rarely fail
Somehow to clash upon the rail.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “If Wits and Poets, Two or Three.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/672/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “If Wits and Poets, Two or Three.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/672/.
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