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" When death is nigh, my latest sigh Will not be life's, but hers. I fill'd this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone, A woman, of her gentle sex The seeming paragon — Her health! and would on earth there stood Some more of such a frame, That life might... "
Kettell, Samuel: Specimens of American Poetry... - Page 82
1829
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The Poets and Poetry of America

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1855 - 690 pages
...her, So very much endears, When death is nigh my latest sigh Will not be life's, but hers. I fill'd this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone, A woman,...her gentle sex The seeming paragon — Her health Ï and would on earth there stood, Some more of such a frame, That life might be all poetry, And weariness...
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The American Speaker: Containing Numerous Rules, Observations, and Exercises ...

John Frost - 1855 - 462 pages
...match the mighty music of that horn, On midnight's fathomless profound ! MELLEN. 113. A HEALTH. I »vtL this cup to one made up of loveliness alone, A woman, of her gentle sex the seeming paragon ; To whom the better elements and kindly stars have given A form so fair, that, like the air, 'tis...
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A Complete Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Comprising the Most Excellent ...

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 pages
...weIl. Byron. All my offering must be Truth, and spotless eonstaney. Mits London. I send this flower to one made up Of loveliness alone ; A woman of her gentle sex The seeming paragon ; O would that on the earth there mov'd Others of sueh a frame, That life might be all poetry, And...
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Cyclopaedia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and ..., Volume 2

Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 838 pages
...bright face one glance will trace a picture on the brain, And of her voice in echoing hearts a sound must long remain ; But memory such as mine of her...nigh my latest sigh will not be life's but hers. I filled this cup to one made up of loveliness alone, A woman, of her gentle sex, the seeming paragon—...
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Cyclopaedia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and ..., Volume 2

Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 816 pages
...bright face one glance will trace a picture on the brain, And of her voice in echoing hearts a sound must long remain; But memory such as mine of her so...death is nigh my latest sigh will not be life's but here. I filled this cup to one made up of loveliness alone, A woman, of her gentle sex, the seeming...
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Cyclopaedia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and ..., Volume 2

Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 808 pages
...picture on the bruin, And of her voice in echoing hearts a sound must long remain ; But memory sueh as mine of her so very much endears, When death is...nigh my latest sigh will not be life's but hers. I filled this cup to one made up of loveliness alone, A womfin, of her gentle sex, the seeming paragon...
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Jerusalem: And Other Poems, Juvenile and Miscellaneous ... with a Brief ...

Roswell Park - 1857 - 338 pages
...march on ! their blood impure Our battle-field shall lave ! BOSTON, MASS., Jan. 23, 1836. CANZONET. " I fill this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone ; A woman, of her gentle sex The seeming paragon ; To whom the better elements, And kinder stars have given A form so fair that, like the air, 'Tis...
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Cooper's Works: Mercedes of Castile

James Fenimore Cooper - 1857 - 500 pages
... CAN8EVOORT - LANSING COLLECTION THE VOYAGE TO CATHAY. BY J. FENIMORE COOPER. I fill this cup to one made up of loveliness alone, A woman, of her gentle sex the seeming paragon; To whom the better elements and kindly stars hare giren A. form so fair, that, like the air, 'tis less...
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The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe: With Original Memoir

Edgar Allan Poe - 1858 - 332 pages
...bright face one glance will trace A picture on the brain, And of her voice in echoing hearts A sound must long remain ; But memory, such as mine of her,...nigh my latest sigh Will not be life's, but hers. I fill'd this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone, A, woman,, of her gentle sex The seeming paragon...
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The Poets of the Nineteenth Century

Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1858 - 642 pages
...glance will trace a picture on the brain. And of her voice in echoing hearts a sound must long rcmain : But memory such as mine of her so very much endears,...nigh my latest sigh will not be life's but hers. I filled this cup to one made up of loveliness alone, A woman, of her gentle sex the seeming paragon...
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