"Ah! sovereign Love, forgive this weaker rhyme! The men of old who sang were great at heart, Yet have we too known woe, and worn thy rose."
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"Sestina", coda, in New Poems (1879)
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Edmund Gosse
Edmund William Gosse (21 September 1849 – 16 May 1928) was an English poet, author and critic.
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