Say I'm weary, say I'm sad,
Say that health and wealth have missed me,
Say I'm growing old, but add,
Jenny kissed me.
        (Rondeau, 5-8)

1. Abou Ben Adhem
2. The Glove and the Lions
3. Rondeau
4. Song of Fairies Robbing an Orchard
5. A Thought of the Nile

Biographical information

Given name: Leigh
Family name: Hunt
Birth date: 19 October 1784
Death date: 28 August 1859
Nationality: English
Family relations
          father: Isaac Hunt
          mother: Mary Hunt
          wife: Marianne Hunt (from 1809)
          son: Thornton Hunt
          son: Vincent Hunt
Languages
          English
          Italian
Education: Christ's Hospital School: 1792
Politics: Liberal
Patron: Henry Kett
Literary period: Romantic
Occupations
          Clerk
          Editor
Residences
          Phillimore Terrace, London to 1853
          Southgate, Middlesex: 19 October 1784
          Surrey gaol: 1813 to 1815
          Edgware Road: 1815 to 1816
          Hampstead: 1816
          Pisa: 1822
          Florence: 1823 to September 1825
          Highgate Hill, London: 1825
          4 Cheyne Row, London: 1833 to 1840
          7 Cornwall Road, Hammersmith: 1853 to 1859
Cause of death: Exhaustion
Buried at: Kensal Green cemetery, Greater London
First RPO edition: 1996-2000