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English Poetry II: From Collins to Fitzgerald.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

Walter Savage Landor

549. Mother, I Cannot Mind My Wheel


MOTHER, I cannot mind my wheel;

My fingers ache, my lips are dry:

Oh! if you felt the pain I feel!

But oh, who ever felt as I?

No longer could I doubt him true—

All other men may use deceit;

He always said my eyes were blue,

And often swore my lips were sweet.