Love
La Promessa Sposa
From Lyra Elegantiarum, ed. Frederick Locker (London: E. Moxon, 1867)
Love
Sleep, my sweet girl! and all the sleep
You take away from others, keep:
A night, no distant one, will come
When those you took your slumbers from.
Generous—ungenerous—will confess
Their joy that you have slumber'd less,
And envy more than they condemn
The rival who avenges them.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “La Promessa Sposa.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/73/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “La Promessa Sposa.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/73/.
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