Living
To a Lady Who Dropt a Few Years
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Living
Lightly you run thro' years; stop! stop!
Let me pick up the gems you drop.
Five I perceive are on the ground . .
What! are you angry they are found?
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MLA
Landor, Walter Savage. “To a Lady Who Dropt a Few Years.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/798/.
Chicago
Landor, Walter Savage. “To a Lady Who Dropt a Few Years.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/798/.
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