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In spite of all romantic poets sing,
This gold, my dearest, is an useful thing.
Mary Leapor
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Woman, a pleasing but a short-lived flower,
Too soft for business and too weak for power:
A wife in bondage, or neglected maid:
Despised, if ugly; if she's fair, betrayed.
Mary Leapor
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Mary Leapor
Born:
1722
Died:
1746
(aged 24)
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Mary Leapor was an English poet, born in Marston St. Lawrence, Northamptonshire, the only child of Anne Sharman and Philip Leapor, a gardener.
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