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George Gordon Byron - Stanzas To A Lady, With The Poems Of Camoëns
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This votive pledge of fond esteem,
   Perhaps, dear girl! for me thou`lt prize;
It sings of Love`s enchanting dream, 
   A theme we never can despise.

Who blames it but the envious fool,
   The old and disappointed maid;
Or pupil of the prudish school, 
   In single sorrow doom`d to fade?

Then read, dear girl! with feeling read, 
   For thou wilt ne`er be one of those;
To thee in vain I shall not plead 
   In pity for the poet`s woes.

He was in sooth a genuine bard; 
   His was no faint, fictitious flame. 
Like his, may love be thy reward, 
   But not thy hapless fate the same.
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