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