...whole area was very much like the old cemetery at its centre, where Landor's Rose Aylmer lies buried. Ah, what avails the sceptred race! Ah, what the form...Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, 280 A night of memories and sighs I consecrate to thee. The inhabitants of the locality prized the...

...who wrote the well-known poem about her death, much loved by Charles Lamb. It appears on the tomb: Ah, what avails the sceptred race! Ah, what the form...night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee. Close to her grave is that of Captain William Mackay, who died in 1804 at the age of 32. His narrative...

...the memory of Lamb's fondness for it. Familiar as it is, it would be unjust not to quote it : — " Ah, what avails the sceptred race ! Ah, what the form divine ! What every virtne, every grace 1 Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but...

...classical allusion. is guihy as charged. as reference to his most famous work will show. exhihit B: Ah what avails the sceptred race. Ah what the form...thine. Rose Aylmer. whom these wakeful eyes May weep. hut never see. A night of memories and of sighs 1 conseerateto thee.I5 These lines commemorate the...

...necessarily false poem written by Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864). The first of its two stanzas is: "Ah, what avails the sceptred race! / Ah, what the...virtue, every grace! / Rose Aylmer, all were thine!" (Landor himself is buried in Florence, where his tombstone carries some equally romantic lines by Swinburne.)...

...children. He spent much of his life traveling outside of England, particularly in Italy. Rose Aylmer Ah, what avails the sceptred race, Ah, what the form...night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee. Finis I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I...