Living
Call Me Not Forth, Said One Who Sate Retired
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Living
"Call me not forth," said one who sate retired,
Whom Love had once, but Envy never, fired.
"I scorn the crowd: no clap of hands he seeks
Who walks among the stateliest of the Greeks."
Cite this poem
MLA
Landor, Walter Savage. “Call Me Not Forth, Said One Who Sate Retired.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/902/.
Chicago
Landor, Walter Savage. “Call Me Not Forth, Said One Who Sate Retired.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/902/.
Read this poem with the Codex →