Fragment: 'I Faint, I Perish With My Love!'

I faint, I perish with my love! I grow
Frail as a cloud whose pale
Under the evening's ever-changing glow:
I die like mist upon the gale,
And like a wave under the calm I fail.

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Major English Romantic poet regarded as one of the finest lyric poets in the English language.

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