Living
Incorrigible
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Living
My hopes and glories all go down,
Before the shadow of your frown:
You smile on me, and I am then
The happiest and the first of men.
To you is given, and but to you,
To punish and to pardon too.
Grave was my fault, yet wish it less
I can not; I would still transgress.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Incorrigible.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/790/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Incorrigible.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/790/.
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