558. On His Seventy-Fifth Birthday. Walter Savage Landor. 1909-14. English Poetry II: From Collins to Fitzgerald. The Harvard Classics

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

558. On His Seventy-Fifth Birthday

Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)


I STROVE with none; for none was worth my strife,
Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art;
I warmed both hands before the fire of life,
It sinks, and I am ready to depart.