George Crabbe
Birthdate: December 24, 1754
Birthplace: Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: February 3, 1832
Occupation: Apothecary, Poet, and Rector
Profile: Combined three careers during his lifetime. Spending his final years as Rector of Trowbridge, Wiltshire from 1814.
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Crabbe
Number of Quotes: 3
Adieu to Liberty! Adieu to Fame!
For other gifts, for softer joys I pine;
In one fair breast I wish a mutual flame,
In one fair breast alone to burn with mine.
Habit with him was all the test of youth,
It must be right: I've done it from my youth.
Through a dull tract of woe, of dread,
The toiling year has pass'd and fled:
And, lo! in sad and pensive strain,
I sing my birth-day date again.
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