“The sweet imperious mouth, whose haughty valor
Defied all portents of impending doom.”

—  Sarah Helen Whitman

The Portrait. (Of Poe).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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United States poet 1803–1878

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