Arts & Sciences
Verses Why Burnt
From A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895, ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman (1895)
Arts & Sciences
How many verses have I thrown
Into the fire because the one
Peculiar word, the wanted most,
Was irrecoverably lost!
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Verses Why Burnt.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/973/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Verses Why Burnt.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/973/.
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