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"Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times!"
Robert SoutheyWrite poetry for its own sake — not in a spirit of emulation, and not — Robert Southey
"Write poetry for its own sake — not in a spirit of emulation, and not with a view to celebrity; the less you aim at that the more likely you will be to deserve and finally to obtain it."
Robert Southey
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Robert Southey was an English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet Laureate from 1813 until his death. Like the other Lake Poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Southey began as a radical but became steadily more conservative as he gained respect for Britain and its institutions. Other romantics such as Byron accused him of siding with the establishment for money and status. He i
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"And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blest the Abbot of Aberbrothok."
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