Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LINES WRITTEN BENEATH A PICTURE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON


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First Line: Dear object of defeated care!
Last Line: My memory immortal grew.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Grief


DEAR object of defeated care!
Though now of Love and thee bereft,
To reconcile me with despair
Thine image and my tears are left.

'T is said with Sorrow Time can cope;
But this I feel can ne'er be true;
For by the death-blow of my Hope
My Memory immortal grew.





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