Edward Coote Pinkney

Edward Coote Pinkney (October 1, 1802 – April 11, 1828) was an American poet, lawyer, sailor, professor, and editor.

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• I fill this cup to one made up
  Of loveliness alone,
  A woman, of her gentle sex
  The seeming paragon;
  To whom the better elements
  And kindly stars have given
  A form so fair, that, like the air,
  'T is less of earth than heaven.
• A Health, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• Her every tone is music's own,
  Like those of morning birds,
  And something more than melody
  Dwells ever in her words.
• A Health, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• Look out upon the stars, my love,
  And shame them with thine eyes.
  • A Serenade, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

External links

• Edward Coote Pinkney poems at Poets' Corner