The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #173300   Message #4202448
Posted By: The Sandman
13-May-24 - 04:02 AM
Thread Name: BS: W.S. Landor, Poet (1775-1864)
Subject: ADD: Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher(WS Landor)
Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher

I strove with none, for none was worth my strife.
Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art:
I warm'd both hands before the fire of life;
It sinks; and I am ready to depart.”
- Walter Savage Landor

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44562/dying-speech-of-an-old-philosopher