Living
Why Never Seen
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Living
You ask me why I'm "never seen." . .
Except by you, perhaps you mean.
Without the gazes of the crowd
I can be (while you let me) proud.
Society props slender folk,
In the deep forest swells the oak.
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MLA
Landor, Walter Savage. “Why Never Seen.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/842/.
Chicago
Landor, Walter Savage. “Why Never Seen.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/842/.
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