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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.

Jane Austen

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Jane Austen
Age: 101 †
Born: 1775
Born: December 16
Died: 1877
Died: July 24
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Steventon
Hampshire
Full
Born
Blush
Many
Fragrance
Unseen
Desert
Waste
Air
Flower

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