Of her 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 very much endears, When death is nigh, my latest sigh Will not be life's but hers. I fill... Flora's Interpreter, and Fortuna Flora - Side 96af Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1849 - 288 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| William James Linton - 1878 - 470 sider
...very much endears, When death is nigh my latest sigh Will not be life's, but hers. I fill 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 be all poetry,... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1879 - 538 sider
...ULMERCEDES OF CASTILE MEKCEDES OF CASTILE OB, THE VOYAGE TO CATHAY. BT J^FENIMORE COOPER. " I fill this cup to one made up of loveliness alone, A woman, of her...stars have given A form so fair, that, like the air, 'tis leas of earth than heaven." PTNKNET. NEW YORK: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 549 & 551 B ROADWAY. 1879.... | |
| George Danielson Carroll - 1879 - 150 sider
...many of whom witnessed the marriage ceremony of Mr. and Mrs. Richardson. A Health. " I FILL this cup to one made up of loveliness alone, A woman, of her...stars have given A form so fair, that, like the air, 'tis less of earth than Heaven." Silver Wedding. MR. CHARLES CROCKER, one of the wealthiest men of... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1879 - 336 sider
...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, of her gentle sex The seeming paragon. Her health ! and would on earth there stood Some more of such a frame, That life might be all poetry,... | |
| Frederick Saunders - 1880 - 474 sider
...Elizabethan age seems to glow in the following lines by PINKNEY, of Maryland : — I fill this cup to one made up of loveliness alone, A woman, of her...stars have given A form so fair, that, like the air, 'tis less of earth than heaven. Her every tone is music's own, like those of morning birds, And something... | |
| Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 sider
...very much endears, When death is nigh, my latest sigh Will not be life's but hers. I fill this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone, A woman, of her gentle sex Her health! and would on earth there stood Some more of such a frame, That life might be all poetry,... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1975 - 1042 sider
...very much endears, When drath is nigh my latest sigh Will not he life's, but hers. I fill'd this cup xn't dx sx! Yxu've gxt tx gx, yxu knxw! Sx gx at xnce, and dxn't gx slxw; fxr nxbxd — Her health I and would on earth there stoud Some more of such a frame, That life might he all poetry,... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson - 1984 - 1572 sider
...very much endears, When death is nigh, my latest sigh Will not be life's but hers. I filled this cup LD# ړ !$y, ` — Her health! and would on earth they stood Some more of such a frame, That life might be all poetry,... | |
| Frank R. Shivers - 1998 - 348 sider
...Herrick's. Poe quoted Pinkney's "Health" as being full of brilliancy and spirit. It begins: / //// this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone, A woman, of her...stars have given A form so fair, that, like the air 'Tis less of earth than heaven. Pinkney's lyric gift reminds us that song was an important literary... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe, Leonard Cassuto - 1999 - 228 sider
...memory, such as mine of her. So very much endears. When death is nigh, my latest sigh 1 filled this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone, A woman, of her gentle sex The seeming paragon — Her health! and would on earth they stood Some more of such a frame, That life might be all poetry.... | |
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