<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355229" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Dessert</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">With the apples and the plums<br>Little Carolina comes,<br>At the time of the dessert she<br>Comes and drops her last new curtsy;<br>Graceful curtsy, practised o'er<br>In the nursery before.<br>What shall we compare her to?<br>The dessert itself will do.<br>Like preserves she's kept with care,<br>Like blanched almonds she is fair,<br>Soft as down on peach her hair,<br>And so soft, so smooth is each<br>Pretty cheek as that same peach,<br>Yet more like in hue to cherries;<br>Then her lips, the sweet strawberries,<br>Caroline herself shall try them<br>If they are not like when nigh them;<br>Her bright eyes are black as sloes,<br>But I think we've none of those<br>Common fruit here-and her chin<br>From a round point does begin,<br>Like the small end of a pear;<br>Whiter drapery she does wear<br>Than the frost on cake; and sweeter<br>Than the cake itself, and neater,<br>Though bedecked with emblems fine,<br>Is our little Caroline.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Lamb">Charles Lamb</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355229" data-title="The Dessert de Charles Lamb" data-description="With the apples and the plums Little Carolina comes, At the time of the dessert she Comes and drops her last new curtsy; Graceful curtsy, practised o'er In the nursery before. What shall we compare her to? The dessert itself will do. Like preserve..."></div> </div> </div>

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