English poem
Lines Upon Seeing A Beautiful Infant Sleeping On The Bosom Of Its Mother.
by John Carr (1793–1845)
Upon its native pillow dear, The little slumb’rer finds repose; His fragrant breath eludes the ear— A zephyr passing o’er a rose. Yet soon from that pure spot of rest (Love’s little throne!) shalt thou be torn; Time hovers o’er thy downy nest, To crown thy baby-brow with thorn. Ah! thoughtless! couldst thou now but see On what a world thou soon must move, Or taste the cup prepar’d for thee Of grief, lost hopes, or widow’d love, Ne’er from that breast thou’d’st raise thine head, But thou would’st breathe to Heav’n a pray’r To let thee, ere thy blossom fade, In one fond sigh exhale thee there.
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- Lines Upon Hearing Miss ---- Sing At An Evening Party. The Nightingale's Complaint.
- Lines Upon Mademoiselle Delphine Saulot Singing Some Equisite Airs In The Gardens Of Mousseau, Near Paris.
- 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 And Liberally Stated.
- Lines Upon Seeing ---- At One Of The Annual Banquets Given In Guildhall.
- Lines Upon The Death Of The Lady Of Lieutenant-Colonel Adams, Who Lately Died Of A Decline In The East Indies.
- Lines Upon The Rev. Mr. C ---- 's Impromptu Compositions Of Some Of Bowles's Sonnets.
- Lines Written At Brighton.
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