RPO -- Walter Savage Landor : Mild is the Parting Year

Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)

Mild is the Parting Year

1Mild is the parting year, and sweet

2 The odour of the falling spray;

3Life passes on more rudely fleet,

4 And balmless is its closing day.

5I wait its close, I court its gloom,

6 But mourn that never must there fall

7Or on my breast or on my tomb

8 The tear that would have soothed it all.

Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
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Original text: Walter Savage Landor, Gebir, Count Julian (1831).
First publication date: 1831
RPO poem editor: H. Kerpneck
RP edition: 3RP 3.5.
Recent editing: 4:2002/2/21

Form: Long Hymnal Measure
Rhyme: abab

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