Proud Word you never spoke
1775-1864
PROUD word you never spoke, but you will speak
Four not exempt from pride some future day.
Resting on one white hand a warm wet cheek,
Over my open volume you will say,
'This man loved me'--then rise and trip away.
DayPoems Poem No. 514
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/514.html">Proud Word you never spoke by Walter Savage Landor</a>
The DayPoems Poetry Collection, www.daypoems.net
Timothy Bovee, editor
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