“I do love violets:
They tell the history of woman's love;
They open with the earliest breath of spring;
Lead a sweet life of perfume, dew, and light;
And, if they perish, perish with a sigh
Delicious as that life.”

Roland's Tower
The Improvisatrice (1824)

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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