Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864). To a Cyclamen. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1909. The Book of Georgian Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909.

To a Cyclamen

By Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)


I COME to visit thee again,
My little flowerless cyclamen;
To touch the hands, almost to press,
That cheered thee in thy loneliness.
What could these lovely sisters find	5
Of thee in form, of me in mind,
What is there in us rich or rare,
To make us worth a moment’s care?
Unworthy to be so caressed,
We are but wither’d leaves at best.	10