 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 less of earth than heaven.  The London Magazine - Page 2281826Full view - About this book
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1825 - 516 pages
...spiritual passion breathed out in it, which must insure for it a ready admiration. A HEALTH. 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... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1825 - 528 pages
...spiritual passion breathed out in it, which must insure for it a ready admiration. A HEALTH. 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... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1825 - 504 pages
...spiritual passion breathed out in it, which must insure for it a ready admiration. A HEALTH. 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... | |
 | American periodicals - 1826 - 506 pages
...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 filled this cup to one...health ! and would on earth there stood some more of such a frame, That life might be all poetry, and weariness a name."—pp. 39,40. " Odds and Ends" is... | |
 | Samuel Kettell - American poetry - 1829 - 432 pages
...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,...health ! and would on earth there stood some more of* such a frame, That life might be all poetry, and weariness a name. • But still the old impassion'd... | |
 | Samuel Kettell - American poetry - 1829 - 446 pages
...come, beloved ! — hasten o'er the sea To build our happy hearth in blooming Italy. A HEALTH. 1 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... | |
 | Lyre - English poetry - 1830 - 396 pages
...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... | |
 | American poetry - 1836 - 268 pages
...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... | |
 | John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 306 pages
...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,...health ! and would on earth there stood some more of such a frame, That life might be all poetry, and weariness a name. TO A LADY. BY GD PRENTICE. I THINK... | |
 | John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 302 pages
...Of oriental waves, which glow And sparkle with the wealth below ! A HEALTH. BY E. 0. 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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