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. Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools - Seite 320von Edwin Mims - 1910 - 440 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Lander Weber - 1903 - 286 Seiten
...changing oft, So fill her, she appears The image of themselves by turns, — The idol of past years ! Of her bright face one glance will trace A picture...memory, such as mine of her, So very much endears, 30 When death is nigh my latest sigh Will not be life's, but hers. I fill this cup to one made up Of... | |
| 1904 - 542 Seiten
...changing oft, So fill her, she appears The image of themselves by turns, — The idol of past years ! Of her bright face one glance will trace A picture...nigh my latest sigh Will not be life's, but hers. A woman, of her gentle sex The seeming paragon. Her health ! and would on earth there stood Some more... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1904 - 268 Seiten
...flowers? And lovely passions, changing oft, So fill her, she appears The image of themselves by turns,— Of her bright face one glance will trace A picture...So very much endears, When death is nigh, my latest aigh Will not be life's, but hers. I fill this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone, A woman, of... | |
| Brander Matthews - 1904 - 338 Seiten
...changing oft, So fill her, she appears By turns the image of themselves — The idol of past years. 80 Of her bright face, one glance will trace A picture on the brain; And of her voice 1 in echoing hearts A sound must long remain; But memory, such as mine of her, So very much endears,... | |
| John Raymond Howard - 1905 - 350 Seiten
...changing oft, So fill her, she appears The image of themselves by turns, — The idol of past years ! Of her bright face one glance will trace A picture...nigh my latest sigh • Will not be life's, but hers. A woman, of her gentle sex The seeming paragon. Her health ! and would on earth there stood Some more... | |
| Henry Van Dyke - 1905 - 354 Seiten
...changing oft, So fill her, she appears The image of themselves by turns,— The idol of past years! '* Of her bright face one glance will trace A picture...nigh my latest sigh Will not be life's, but hers. 32 I fill this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone, A woman, of her gentle sex The seeming paragon—... | |
| Augustus White Long - 1905 - 374 Seiten
...changing oft, 20 So fill her, she appears The image of themselves by turns, — The idol of past years ! Of her bright face one glance will trace A picture on the brain, 25 And of her voice in echoing hearts A sound must long remain ; But memory, such as mine of her, So... | |
| Mildred Lewis Rutherford - 1906 - 918 Seiten
...Edward Coates Pinckney's "Health." a tribute to woman, be forgotten, for it was written before 1828. "I fill this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone, A woman of her gentler sex The seeming paragon ; To whom the better elements And kindly stars have given A form so... | |
| 1912 - 1094 Seiten
...changing oft, so fill her, she appears The image of themselves by turns — the Idol of past years. Of her bright face one glance will trace a picture...as mine of her so very much endears, When death is night my latest sigh will not be life's but hers. I fill this cup to one made up of loveliness alone,... | |
| 1907 - 102 Seiten
...dim, And sometimes cease to move to you, I fill my bumper to the brim And pledge a lot of love to you! I fill this cup to one made up Of loveliness alone, A woman, of her gentler sex The seeming paragon. Her health! and would on earth there stood Some more of such a frame,... | |
| |