The Project Gutenberg EBook of Poems, by Sir John CarrThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: PoemsAuthor: Sir John CarrRelease Date: December 2, 2003 [EBook #10367]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POEMS ***Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Jonathan Ingram, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.POEMS,BYSIR JOHN CARR.Non ulla Musis pagina gratior,Quam quae severis ludicra jungereNovit, fatigatamque nugisUtilibus recreare mentem.1809.POEMS.DEDICATION.TOLADY 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 anhonour; that I might consequently have used it as an humble mode of expressing my sense of the happy andenlightened hours which I have passed in your Ladyship's society, and of the polite attentions which I have at varioustimes received from you, and the gallant object of your connubial affection, particularly at the House of BritishEmbassy 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'sObedient ...
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