Oh, when a mother meets on highThe babe she lost in infancy,Hath she not then for pains and fears,The day of woe, the watchful night,For all her sorrow, all her tears,An over-payment of delight?
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Robert Southey was a 18th-century English romantic poet. 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. Read more on Wikipedia →