William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909.
Mother, I Cannot Mind My WheelWalter Savage Landor (17751864)
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My fingers ache, my lips are dry:
Oh! if you felt the pain I feel!
But oh, who ever felt as I?
No longer could I doubt him true—
All other men may use deceit;
He always said my eyes were blue,
And often swore my lips were sweet.