“Though the day of my Destiny's over,
And the star of my Fate hath declined,
Thy soft heart refused to discover
The faults which so many could find.”

Stanzas to Augusta http://readytogoebooks.com/LB-Augusta2.html, st. 1 (1816).

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English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement 1788–1824

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