The Shorter Works of Walter Savage Landor (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Shorter Works of Walter Savage Landor <p>Cleone! I write from Athens. I hasten to meet your reproaches, and to stifle them in my embrace. It was wrong to have left Miletus at all it was wrong to have parted from you without entrusting you with my secret. N o, no, neither was wrong. I have with stood many tears, my sweet Cleone, but never yours; you could always do what you would with me and I should have been windbound by you on the Maeander, as surely and inexorably as the fleet at Aulis' by Diana. <p>Ionia is far more beautiful than Attica, Miletus than Athens; for about Athens there is no verdure, no spacious and full and flowing river, few gardens, many olive-trees, so many indeed that we seem to be in an eternal cloud of dust. However, when the sea breezes blow, this tree itself looks beautiful; it looks, in its pliable and undulating branches, irresolute as Ariadne -when she was urged to fly, and pale as Orithyia when she was borne away. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.