English poem
Lines Upon Seeing ---- At One Of The Annual Banquets Given In Guildhall.
by John Carr (1793–1845)
Gorgeous and splendid was the sight; From myriad lamps a fairy light Enshrin’d in wreaths the Gothic wall, And heav’nly music fill’d the hall! But there was one—(alas! that I Had ever seen)—the melody Her voice surpassed, and brighter far Her eyes than ev’ry mimic star! I gaz’d, until, oh! thought divine! I fancied she I saw was mine; But soon the beauteous vision flew— The stranger-form I lov’d withdrew. Yet still she lives within my breast, There mem’ry has her form imprest:— Thus, when some minstrel’s strain is done, Sounds seem to breathe, for ever gone!
More by John Carr
- Lines Upon A Lady Dying Soon After She Had Been Wrecked On The Cornish Coast, Leaving A Little Infant Behind Her.
- 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 A Beautiful Infant Sleeping On The Bosom Of Its Mother.
- 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.