Living
The Sage of Seventeen
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Living
Little have you to learn from me,
O sage of seventeen!
Wiser I will not boast to be,
I can not to have been.
Go, rather place your hand in hers
Who acts a mother's part,
And who to all your charms prefers
Your pure and grateful heart.
Slowly you 'll draw it back again
When Love demands his day;
Pleasure will hardly conquer Pain
To carry you away.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “The Sage of Seventeen.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/850/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “The Sage of Seventeen.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/850/.
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