Welcome to my poetry reading of 'To E——' by Lord Byron. Do you have a favourite Byron poem?
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'To E——' by Lord Byron
Let Folly smile, to view the names
Of thee and me, in Friendship twin'd;
Yet Virtue will have greater claims
To love, than rank with vice combin'd.
And though unequal is thy fate,
Since title deck'd my higher birth;
Yet envy not this gaudy state,
Thine is the pride of modest worth.
Our souls at least congenial meet,
Nor can thy lot my rank disgrace;
Our intercourse is not less sweet,
Since worth of rank supplies the place.
(Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8861/8861-h/8861-h.htm#section7)