James Matthews Legaré

James Matthews Legaré (November 26, 1823 – March 30, 1859) was an American poet and failed inventor.

Quotes

• 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.
  • "To a Lily" (1845), stanza 1, in Orta-Undis and Other Poems (Boston: William D. Ticknor & Company, 1848), p. 10.

• Thou in thy lake dost see
  Thyself: so she
  Beholds her image in her eyes
  Reflected. Thus did Venus rise
  From out the sea.
  • "To a Lily" (1845), stanza 3, in Orta-Undis and Other Poems (Boston: William D. Ticknor & Company, 1848), p. 10..