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Lucretia Maria Davidson was an American poet of the early 19th century.

✵ 27. September 1808 – 27. August 1825
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Lucretia Maria Davidson Quotes

“Though I were gifted with an angel's tongue,
And voice like that with which the prophets sung,
Yet if mild charity were not within,
'T were all an impious mockery and sin.”

Lucretia Maria Davidson

Charity

Angels

“Leaning on thy dear faithful breast,
I would resign my breath,
And in thy loved embraces lose
The bitterness of death.”

Lucretia Maria Davidson

A View Of Death

Love , Death , Faith

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