| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909. | | | | An Aged Man Who Loved to Doze away | | By Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) |
| | | AN AGED man who loved to doze away | |
| An hour by daylight, for his eyes were dim, | |
| And he had seen too many suns go down | |
| And rise again, dreamed that he saw two forms | |
| Of radiant beauty; he would clasp them both, | 5 |
| But both, flew stealthily away. He cried | |
In his wild dream,
‘I never thought, O youth, | |
| That thou, altho’ so cherished, would’st return, | |
| But I did think that he who came with thee, | |
| Love, who could swear more sweetly than birds sing, | 10 |
| Would never leave me comfortless and lone.’ | |
| A sigh broke through his slumber, not the last. | | | | |
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