To Stella

FROM THE GREEK OF PLATO.
Thou wert the morning star among the living,
Ere thy fair light had fled;--
Now, having died, thou art as Hesperus, giving
New splendour to the dead.

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

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