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BEHOLD, O ASPASIA! I SEND YOU VERSES, FR. PERICLES AND ASPASIA by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Poet Analysis

First Line: BEAUTY! THOU ART A WANDERER ON THE EARTH
Last Line: GRIEVED THAT THEY BOUND IT, GRIEVES THAT THEY ARE BROKEN.

Beauty! thou art a wanderer on the earth,
And hast no temple in the fairest isle
Or city over-sea, where wealth and mirth
And all the Graces, all the Muses, smile.

Thou art a wanderer, Beauty! like the rays
That now upon the platan, now upon
The sleepy lake, glance quick or idly gaze,
And now are manifold and now are none.

In more than one bright form hast thou appeared,
In more than one sweet dialect hast thou spoken:
Beauty! thy spells the heart within me heard,
Grieved that they bound it, grieves that they are broken.



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