Arts & Sciences
Oft, When the Muses Would Be Festive
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Arts & Sciences
Oft, when the Muses would be festive,
Unruly Pegasus runs restive,
And, over the Pierian fount
Flies upward to their sacred mount;
Aware that marshes rot the hoof
He proudly wings his way aloof.
He loves the highest ground the best,
And takes where eagles soar his rest.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Oft, When the Muses Would Be Festive.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/911/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Oft, When the Muses Would Be Festive.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/911/.
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