Mary Robinson (poet)
Mary Robinson (née Darby) (27 November 1757? – 26 December 1800) was an English poet and novelist. During her lifetime she was known as "the English Sappho". She was also known for her role as Perdita (heroine of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale) in 1779 and as the first public mistress of King George IV while he was still Prince of Wales.
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“Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time,
Tiering the same dull webs of discontent,
Clipping the same sad alnage of the years.”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)