English Poetry II: From Collins to Fitzgerald.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Walter Savage Landor
551. No, My Own Love
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No, it must never be.
Much rests with you that yet endears,
Alas! but what with me?
So gay, o’er you so fair,
The pearl of life we would dissolve,
And each the cup might share.
Whatever fate befalls;
I, that the myrtle and the bay
Shoot fresh on ruined walls.