Poem by Walter Savage Landor

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Pleasure! why thus desert the heart
    In its spring-tide?
I could have seen her, I could part,
    And but have sigh'd!

O'er every youthful charm to stray,
    To gaze, to touch....
Pleasure! why take so much away,
    Or give so much?

1. Acon and Rhodope
2. Idle Words
3. Defiance
4. Tell Me Not Things Past All Belief
5. Rose Aylmer

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