Living
With Flowers
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Living
The Goddess of beauty, who loves early hours,
Awakened the Graces to gather you flowers:
The Goddess of wisdom comes later, and says,
" Those wither; take mine; they shall last all your days.'
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Landor, Walter Savage. “With Flowers.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/787/.
Chicago
Landor, Walter Savage. “With Flowers.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/787/.
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