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James Matthews Legaré
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“Go bow thy head in gentle spite, Thou lily white. For she who spies thee waving here, With thee in beauty can compare As day with night.”
James Matthews Legaré (1823–1859) first seen 1845 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To a Lily" (1845), stanza 1, in Orta-Undis and Other Poems (Boston: William D. Ticknor & Company, 1848), p. 10.
“Thou in thy lake dost see Thyself: so she Beholds her image in her eyes Reflected. Thus did Venus rise From out the sea.”
James Matthews Legaré (1823–1859) first seen 1845 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To a Lily" (1845), stanza 3, in Orta-Undis and Other Poems (Boston: William D. Ticknor & Company, 1848), p. 10..