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James Matthews Legaré was an American poet and failed inventor.

Legaré was born on November 26, 1823, in Charleston, South Carolina. He was a relative of Hugh S. Legaré. He was by profession an inventor, but whose ill health prevented the commercialization of his devices. He contributed poetry to magazines, and published a single volume, Orta-Undis and other poems in 1848. Orta-undis means "sprung from water".

Legaré died on March 30, 1859, in Aiken, South Carolina.

✵ 26. November 1823 – 30. March 1859
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James Matthews Legaré Quotes

“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

To a Lily, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Sea

“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

To a Lily, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Beauty , Night

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