Arts & Sciences
With Petrarch's Sonnets
From Lyra Elegantiarum, ed. Frederick Locker (London: E. Moxon, 1867)
Arts & Sciences
Behold what homage to his idol paid
The tuneful suppliant of Valclusa's shade.
His verses still the tender heart engage,
They charm'd a rude, and please a polish'd age:
Some are to nature and to passion true.
And all had been so, had he lived for you,
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Landor, Walter Savage. “With Petrarch's Sonnets.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/74/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “With Petrarch's Sonnets.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/74/.
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