Imaginary Conversations and Poems, by Walter Savage Landor

Imaginary Conversations

1. Marcellus and Hannibal
2. Queen Elizabeth and Cecil
3. Epictetus and Seneca
4. Peter the Great and Alexis
5. Henry viii and Anne Boleyn
6. Joseph Scaliger and Montaigne
7. Boccaccio and Petrarca
8. Bossuet and the Duchess De Fontanges
9. John of Gaunt and Joanna of Kent
10. Leofric and Godiva
11. Essex and Spenser
12. Lord Bacon and Richard Hooker
13. Oliver Cromwell and Walter Noble
14. Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney
15. Southey and Porson
16. The Abbé Delille and Walter Landor
17. Diogenes and Plato
18. Alfieri and Salomon the Florentine Jew
19. Rousseau and Malesherbes
20. Lucullus and Caesar
21. Epicurus, Leontion, and Ternissa
22. Dante and Beatrice
23. Fra Filippo Lippi and Pope Eugenius the Fourth
24. Tasso and Cornelia
25. La Fontaine and De La Rochefoucault
26. Lucian and Timotheus
27. Bishop Shipley and Benjamin Franklin
28. Southey and Landor
29. The Emperor of China and Tsing-Ti
30. Louis xviii and Talleyrand
31. Oliver Cromwell and Sir Oliver Cromwell
32. The Count Gleichem: The Countess: Their Children, and Zaida.

The Pentameron Or, Interviews of Messer Giovanni Boccaccio And Messer Francesco Petrarca When Said Messer Giovanni Lay Infirm at His Villetta Hard by Certaldo; After which They Saw Not Each Other on Our Side Of Paradise.

1. First Day’s Interview
2. Third Day’s Interview
3. Fourth Day’s Interview
4. Fifth Day’s Interview

Poems

1. She I love (alas in vain!)
2. Pleasure! why thus desert the heart
3. Past ruin’d Ilion Helen lives
4. Ianthe! you are call’d to cross the sea!
5. The gates of fame and of the grave
6. Twenty years hence my eyes may grow
7. Here, ever since you went abroad
8. Tell me not things past all belief
9. Proud word you never spoke, but you will speak
10. Fiesole Idyl
11. Ah what avails the sceptred race
12. With rosy hand a little girl prest down
13. Ternissa! you are fled!
14. Various the roads of life; in one
15. Yes; I write verses now and then
16. On Seeing a Hair of Lucretia Borgia
17. Once, and once only, have I seen thy face
18. To Wordsworth
19. To Charles Dickens
20. To Barry Cornwall
21. To Robert Browning
22. Age
23. Leaf after leaf drops off, flower after flower
24. Well I remember how you smiled
25. I strove with none, for none was worth my strife
26. Death stands above me, whispering low
27. A Pastoral
28. The Lover
29. The Poet who Sleeps
30. Daniel Defoe
31. Idle Words
32. To the River Avon