"To my Daughter.
"A Child embracing.
"My Heart is sick.
"False Poets and True.
"The Forsaken.
"The last stanza of Inez is beautiful."
Of the poem which heads the list, he wrote:—
"'Song of the Shirt' Strange! very strange,
This shirt will never want a change,
Nor ever will wear out so long
As Britain has a heart or tongue."
Hood commanded great love and respect from Landor. Soon the reign of G. P. R. James set in, and when I left Florence he was still in power. I cannot but think that a strong personal friendship had much to do with Landor's enthusiasm for this novelist.