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With fire and sword the country round Was wasted far and wide, And many a childing mother then And new-born baby died; But things like that, you know, must be At every famous victory.
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Stanzas in My Library
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For five years I have been preaching the policy, the duty, the necessity of declaring Bonaparte under the ban of human nature. Under this stress of feeling he wrote his great
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Ode During the Negotiations for Peace. It was the most powerful of his occasional pieces. In 1813, he was made Poet Laureate. As such, it fell to him to write another occasional piece on the death of the Princess Charlotte. The grace and beauty of his lines on this occasion have long outlived the memory of that lamented princess. Unlike his great contemporaries, Lord Byron and Sir Walter Scott, Southey never achieved a great material success. Having married young, he often walked the streets, so he himself confessed,
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In 1835, when he was sixty-one years old, he wrote to Sir Robert Peel while declining the offer of a baronetcy,
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Last year for the first time in my life I was provided with a year's expenditure beforehand.
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Southey's epics crammed the creaking shelves.
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Stanzas Written in My Library