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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... "
Specimens of American Poetry: With Critical and Biographical Notices. In ... - Page 82
by Samuel Kettell - 1829
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The North American Review, Volume 21

North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1825 - 504 pages
...bright face one glance will trace a picture on the bram, 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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The London Magazine, Volume 4

1826 - 622 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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The Lyre: Fugitive Poetry of the Xixth Century

Lyre - English poetry - 1830 - 396 pages
...Wherein its flow shall have no taste of the bitter fountains here. A HEALTH. BY EDWABD C. I'INKNEY. 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 have given A form so fair, that, like the air, 'tis...
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The Laurel: a Gift for All Seasons: Being a Collection of Poems

American poetry - 1836 - 268 pages
...love shall never be a chain, To bind me to its nothingness again ' 14* A HEALTH. BY EDWARD C. PINKNEY. 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 have given A form so fair, that, like the air, 't is...
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Flora's Interpreter, Or, The American Book of Flowers and Sentiments

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Flower language - 1838 - 282 pages
...Europe, and Xorth MY COMPLIMESTS. The various Iris Juno sends with baste. SENTIMENT. I send this flower 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, 'T is...
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The Poets of America, Volume 1

John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 304 pages
...golden bed Of oriental waves, which glow And sparkle with the wealth below ! A HEALTH. BY EC PINKNEY. 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 have given A form so fair, that, like the air, 'tis...
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Mercedes of Castile, Or, The Voyage to Cathay, Volumes 1-2

James Fenimore Cooper - 1840 - 556 pages
...THE VOYAGE TO CATHAY BY THE AUTHOR OP "THE BEAVO," "THE HEADSMAN," "THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS," Ice. 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 stare have given A form so fair, that, like the air, 't is lea...
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Mercedes of Castile: Or, The Voyage to Cathay

James Fenimore Cooper - 1840 - 502 pages
...THE VOYAGE TO CATHAY. BY THE AUTHOR OF "THE BRAVO." "THE HEADSMAN." "THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS." &c. I fill this cup, to one made up of loveliness alone, A woman. or her gentle sex the seeming paragon ; To whom the better elements and kindly stars have given A form...
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The Lyre: Fugitive Poetry of the Nineteenth Century

Lyre - English poetry - 1841 - 374 pages
...Wherein its flow shall have no taste of the bitter fountains here. A HEALTH. BY EDWABD C. PINKNEY. 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 have given A form so fair, that, like the air, 'tis...
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The Lyre: Fugitive Poetry of the Nineteenth Century

Lyre - English poetry - 1841 - 366 pages
...Wherein its flow shall have no taste of the bitter fountains here. A HEALTH. BY EDWARD C. PINKNEY. 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 have given A form so fair, that, like the air, 'tis...
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