Arts & Sciences

A Poet Sleeping

by Walter Savage Landor 1775–1864

From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)

Arts & Sciences

The poet sleeps: at every wheeze,
At every grunt and groan
You cry, "His verses how like these!
He marks them for his own."

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Landor, Walter Savage. “A Poet Sleeping.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/815/.

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Landor, Walter Savage. “A Poet Sleeping.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/815/.

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