Versos English John Carr Lines To A Laurel-Leaf, Sent To The Author By Miss ---- .

English poem

Lines To A Laurel-Leaf, Sent To The Author By Miss ---- .

by (1793–1845)

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Tho’ unknown is the hand that bestow’d thee on me, Sweet leaf! ev’ry fibre I’ll warm with a kiss: With the fame of her beauty thou well dost agree, Whose presence shews conquest, whose triumph is bliss!