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English Poetry II: From Collins to Fitzgerald.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

Walter Savage Landor

557. On Lucretia Borgia’s Hair


BORGIA, thou once wert almost too august

And high for adoration; now thou’rt dust;

All that remains of thee these plaits unfold,

Calm hair, meandering in pellucid gold.