To Mrs. Kean

←To the venerable General Gaines

To Mrs. Kean by Anne Lynch Botta from Poems (1848)

Sonnet. A remembrance→

        Of those fair characters the bards create,
            Round which thy genius added charms has thrown,
        Of those sweet natures thou dost personate,
            There is not one more lovely than thine own.
 

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