Landor

Famous quotes containing the word landor:

    “Lately our poets loiter’d in green lanes,
    Content to catch the ballads of the plains;”
    —Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)

    “My slumber broken and my doublet torn,
    I find the laurel also bears a thorn.”
    —Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)

    “I know what wages beauty gives,
    How hard a life her servant lives,
    Yet praise the winters gone:
    There is not a fool can call me friend,
    And I may dine at journey’s end
    With Landor and with Donne.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)