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Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)

Rose Aylmer


              1Ah what avails the sceptred race,
              2      Ah what the form divine!
              3What every virtue, every grace!
              4      Rose Aylmer, all were thine.
              5Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes
              6      May weep, but never see,
              7A night of memories and of sighs
              8      I consecrate to thee.

Notes

1] The present is the text of 1846. Rose (l779-1800), the daughter of Baron Aylmer, had been a friend of Landor.

Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries.

Original text: Walter Savage Landor, Simonidea. (1806). The present is the text of Landor's Works (London: E. Moxon, 1846). PR 4870 A25F6 1846 ROBA.
First publication date: 1806
RPO poem editor: H. Kerpneck
RP edition: 3RP 3.3.
Recent editing: 4:2002/2/21

Form: Hymnal Meaure (doubled)
Rhyme: ababcdcd

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