Versos English Walter Savage Landor Pleasure! why thus desert the heart

English poem

Pleasure! why thus desert the heart

by (1775–1864)

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Pleasure! why thus desert the heart In its spring-tide? I could have seen her, I could part, And but have sigh'd! O'er every youthful charm to stray, To gaze, to touch.... Pleasure! why take so much away, Or give so much?