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Title: Poems

Author: Sir John Carr

Release Date: December 2, 2003 [EBook #10367]

Language: English

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POEMS,

BY

SIR JOHN CARR.

Non ulla Musis pagina gratior,
Quam quae severis ludicra jungere
Novit, fatigatamque nugis
Utilibus recreare mentem.

1809.

POEMS.

DEDICATION.

TO

LADY WARREN,

&c. &c. &c.

_MADAM_,

In dedicating the following Poems to your Ladyship, I cannot help
regretting that they are not more worthy of such an honour; that I
might consequently have used it as an humble mode of expressing
my sense of the happy and enlightened hours which I have passed in
your Ladyship's society, and of the polite attentions which I
have at various times received from you, and the gallant object of
your connubial affection, particularly at the House of British Embassy
at Petersburgh, where you afforded to the Ladies of the North a just
representation of the dignified virtue, cultivated mind, and
attractive beauty, of the higher order of females of your own country.

I have the honour to remain,

Madam,

Your Ladyship's

Obedient faithful Servant,

JOHN CARR.

_Temple. June_ 1809

PREFACE.

This Volume is submitted to the Public with all that diffidence which
ought to attend the publication of Verses, many of which were written
in the gay and happy era of boyhood, and others in subsequent periods
of maturer life, as a relief from more arduous pursuits.

They lay no pretensions to the depth and solidity of the effusions of
the Muse in her elevated flights; they are the few wild notes of the
simple shepherd, and do not even affect to imitate the rich cadence of
the scientific musician.

If the Author might, without the imputation of vanity, select for them
a place in the Temple of Poetry, he would endeavour to class them in
that niche which is appropriated for the reception of the light and
playful _Vers de Societe_.

Should the Reader f