Living
Honour and Modesty
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Living
When Honour once hath shut the door
Behind him, he returns no more.
Modesty finds, once gone astray,
No forward and no backward way,
Gone every grace that most endears!
Gone, beyond all, the grace of tears!
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MLA
Landor, Walter Savage. “Honour and Modesty.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/799/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Honour and Modesty.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/799/.
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