Time & Brevity
The Casket
From Lyra Elegantiarum, ed. Frederick Locker (London: E. Moxon, 1867)
Time & Brevity
Sure, 'tis time to have resign'd
All the dainties of the mind,
And to take a little rest
After Life's too lengthen'd feast,
Why then turn the Casket-key?
What is there within to see?
Whose is this dark twisted hair?
Whose this other, crisp and fair?
Whose the slender ring? now broken.
Undesignedly, a token.
Love said mine; and Friendship said
So I fear, and shook her head.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “The Casket.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/79/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “The Casket.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/79/.
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