Fragment: The Lady of the South

Faint with love, the Lady of the South
Lay in the paradise of Lebanon
Under a heaven of cedar boughs: the drouth
Of love was on her lips; the light was gone
Out of her eyes--

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

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