Sir John Carr Poems

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41.
Echo

Echo! thou sweet enchantress of the grove!
Oh! cease to answer to the tones of love;
Or teach my Delia in thine art divine,
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42.

To such extremes were I and Bet
Perpetually driven,
We quarrell'd every time we met,
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43.
Farewell Lines To Bristol Hot Wells

Bristol! in vain thy rocks attempt the sky,
The wild woods waving on their giddy brow;
And vainly, devious Avon! vainly sigh
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44.
Impromptu Lines

By Beauty's caresses, like Cupid, half-spoil'd,
Thus Music's and Poesy's favourite child
Exclaim'd,-''Tis, by Heaven! a terrible thing
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45.
Impromptu Lines On A Very Handsome Woman

The sign of the house should be chang'd, I'll be sworn,
Where enchanted we find so much beauty and grace;
Then quick from the door let the
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46.
Impromptu To Madame C----

Whilst, in a dress that one might swear
The whole was made of woven air,
Pert Fashion spreads her senseless sway
Over the giddy and the gay
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47.
Jeu D’esprit

Madam! you ask what marks for beauty pass:
Require them rather from your looki ...
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48.
Lines

Upon reading the Journal of a Friend's Tour into Scotland, in which
the picturesque Scenery and the Character of the People are fairly
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49.
Lines _To A Laurel-Leaf_,

Tho' unknown is the hand that bestow'd thee on me,
Sweet leaf! ev'ry fibre I'll warm with a kiss:
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50.
Lines _To The Memory Of Mrs. A.H. Holdsworth_,

Tyrant of all our loves and friendships here,
Behold thy beauteous victim!-Ah! tis thine
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