Living
You Ask How I, Who Could Converse
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Living
You ask how I, who could converse
With Pericles, can stoop to worse:
How I, who once had higher aims,
Can trifle so with epigrams.
I would not lose the wise from view,
But would amuse the children too;
Beside, my breath is short and weak,
And few must be the words I speak.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “You Ask How I, Who Could Converse.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/943/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “You Ask How I, Who Could Converse.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/943/.
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