Caroline Keppel
Lady Caroline Keppel (20 August 1737 – 11 September 1769) was a Scottish noblewoman who wrote the lyrics to "Robin Adair". She was the wife of the surgeon Robert Adair.
Quotes
[edit]- What’s this dull town to me?
Robin’s not near.
He whom I wished to see,
Wished for to hear;
Where’s all the joy and mirth
Made life a heaven on earth?
O! they’re all fled with thee,
Robin Adair.- "Robin Adair", st. 1 (wr. 1750s), in Bruce's Address, &c. (Glasgow, 1823), pp. 5–6
- Mentioned in Jane Austen, Emma (1815), ch. 10