Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Sam W. and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS AND POEMS: A SELECTION By WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR CONTENTS IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS Marcellus and Hannibal Queen Elizabeth and Cecil Epictetus and Seneca Peter the Great and Alexis Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn Joseph Scaliger and Montaigne Boccaccio and Petrarca Bossuet and the Duchess de Fontanges John of Gaunt and Joanna of Kent Leofric and Godiva Essex and Spenser Lord Bacon and Richard Hooker Oliver Cromwell and Walter Noble Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney Southey and Porson The Abbe Delille and Walter Landor Diogenes and Plato Alfieri and Salomon the Florentine Jew Rousseau and Malesherbes Lucullus and Caesar Epicurus, Leontion, and Ternissa Dante and Beatrice Fra Filippo Lippi and Pope Eugenius the Fourth Tasso and Cornelia La Fontaine and de La Rochefoucault Lucian and Timotheus Bishop Shipley and Benjamin Franklin Southey and Landor The Emperor of China and Tsing-Ti Louis XVIII and Talleyrand Oliver Cromwell and Sir Oliver Cromwell The Count Gleichem: the Countess: their Children, and Zaida THE PENTAMERON First Day's Interview Third Day's Interview Fourth Day's Interview Fifth Day's Interview POEMS I. She I love (alas in vain!) II. Pleasure! why thus desert the heart III. Past ruin'd Ilion Helen lives IV. Ianthe! you are call'd to cross the sea! V. The gates of fame and of the grave VI. Twenty years hence my eyes may grow VII. Here, ever since you went abroad VIII. Tell me not things past all belief IX. Proud word you never spoke, but you will speak X. Fiesole Idyl XI. Ah what avails the sceptred race XII. With rosy hand a little girl prest down VIII. Ternissa! you are fled! XIV. Various the roads of life; in one XV. Yes; I write verses now and then XVI. On seeing a hair of Lucretia Borgia XVII. Once, and once only, have I seen thy face XVIII. To Wordsworth XIX. To Charles Dickens XX. To Barry Cornwall XXI. To Robert Browning XXII. Age XXIII. Leaf after leaf drops off, flower after flower XXIV. Well I remember how you smiled XXV. I strove with none, for none was worth my strife XXVI. Death stands above me, whispering low XXVII. A Pastoral XXVIII. The Lover XXIX. The Poet who Sleeps XXX. Daniel Defoe XXXI. Idle Words XXXII. To the River Avon IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS