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date: 23 May 2025

Anne Finch, Lady Winchilsea 1661–1720
English poet 

  1. Now the jonquil o'ercomes the feeble brain;
    We faint beneath the aromatic pain.
     
    ‘The Spleen’ (1701); see Pope