 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.  Choice Specimens of American Literature - Página 192de Benjamin Nicholas Martin - 1871 - 223 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Charles Sealsfield - 1844 - 364 páginas
...they rose, and the young man in the linen jacket gave the excellent toast of our gallant Piukney : " 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 ! Same more of such a frame! That life might all be poetry,... | |
 | Edward Coote Pinkney - 1841 - 28 páginas
...her so very much cnclears, 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 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,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1844 - 136 páginas
...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, of her gentle sex Her health ! and would on earth there stood, Some more of such a frame, That life might be all poetry,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 538 páginas
...by like flights of singing birds, Or that soft chain of spoken flowers, And airy gems — thy words. A HEALTH. I FILL this cup to one made up Of loveliness...kindly stars have given A form so fair, that, like lhe air, 'T is less of earth than heaven. Her every tone is musie's own, Like those of morning birds,... | |
 | John Frost - 1845 - 458 páginas
...mine of her so 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 - 1845 - 502 páginas
...BKAVO," "THE HEADSMAN." "THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS," «te. I fill this crip, to one made up of lovettnesa alone A woman, of her gentle sex the seeming paragon To whom the better elements and kindly stare have given A. form to fair, that, like the air, 'l is less of earth than heavet PlNKNKT. IN TWO... | |
 | Mary Chauncey - 1846 - 148 páginas
...Jama Bet ida ip, — Class 21, Order 8. An ornamental tree of t«mp«rate climate«, GRACEFULNESS. I FILL this cup, to one made up, of loveliness alone...that like the air 'tis less of earth than heaven. Eduard C. Pinckney . As the bird in tropic bowers Ever waves its sportive wing, 'Mid the bright and... | |
 | 1848 - 276 páginas
...of her so very muc.ii endears, vVhen death is nigh, my latest sigh will not be life's, but hers. 1 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 som'' more of such a frame, That life might be all poetry,... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1850 - 438 páginas
...her, So very much endears, When death is nigh, my latest sigh Will not bo life's but hers. I 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,... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1850 - 462 páginas
...peroepible even in a poem so full of brilliancy and pirit as the " Health" of Edward Coote Pink>ey: I fill this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone,...stars have given A form so fair, that, like the air, 'Tie loss of earth than heaven. lier every tone is music's own, Like those of morning birds, And something... | |
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