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" Where the lamps quiver So far in the river, With many a light From window and casement, From garret to basement, She stood, with amazement, Houseless by night. The bleak wind of March Made her tremble and shiver; But not the dark arch, Or the black flowing... "
The complete poetical works of Edgar Allan Poe, with a selection of his ... - Page 18
by Edgar Allan Poe - 1866
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Sunshine in the workhouse

Emma Sheppard - 1809 - 104 pages
...Feelings had changed; Love, by harsh evidence, Thrown from its eminence; Even God's providence Seeming estranged. Where the lamps quiver So far in the river,...hurl'd— Anywhere, anywhere Out of the world ! In she plunged boldly No matter how coldly The rough river ran, — Over the brink of it, Picture it —...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...Feelings had changed — Love, by harsh evidence, Thrown from its eminence; Even God's providence Seeming estranged. Where the lamps quiver So far in the river,...life's history, Glad to death's mystery, Swift to be hurled — Any where, any where Out of the world ! In she plunged boldly — No matter how coldly The...
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Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 14

William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1847 - 892 pages
...intellect seem to bo dead, but to us how unspeakably dear!) might perpetuate the name of Hood : "The Weak wind of March Made her tremble and shiver, But not the dark arch, Nor the hkiclt flowing river; Mad from life's history — Glnd to death's mystery . Swift to he hurled,...
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The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, Volume 22

474 pages
...on the thick, damp vapours. But this that follows has, we think, more of London in its horror — " Where the lamps quiver, So far in the river, With...basement, She stood with amazement, Houseless by night 1 " The bleak winds of March Made her tremble and shiver, But not the dark arch, Or the black flowing...
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The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, Volumes 36-37

742 pages
...awfully true words of Hood thrill me now, when I remember that moment — " The bleak winds of March Hade her tremble and shiver ; But not the dark arch, Or...Life's history, Glad to Death's mystery Swift to be hurled, Auywhere ! anywhere out of the world!" I got up from my seat, I walked slowly but unwaveringly...
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The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, Volume 24

470 pages
...picture of utter despair, which the following lines contain, is beyond criticism : — " Mad from life'« history, Glad to death's mystery Swift to be hurl'd Anywhere, anywhere, Out of the world!" Mamy others there are in these volumes, written in the same spirit, though under moments of less striking...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 8

1846 - 608 pages
...Feeling- hnd changed : Love, by harsh evidence, Thrown Irom its eminence ; Even God's providence Seeming estranged. " Where the lamps quiver So far in the...night. " The bleak wind of March Made her tremble nnd shiver; But not the dark arch, Or the black flowing river: Mad from fife's history, Glatl to death's...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 24

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1844 - 626 pages
...take away. ' Hope has no blandishments in store that can seduce, nor fear a threat that can appal :' 1 MAD from life's history, Glad to death's mystery Swift to be hurl'd ; Any where, any where Out of the world !' IT was the Mohawk, not the Hudson, that was the scene of...
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Prose and Verse, Volumes 1-2

Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 pages
...Feelings had changed : Love, by harsh evidence, Thrown from its eminence ; Even God's providence Seeming estranged. Where the lamps quiver So far in the river,...hurl'd— Anywhere, anywhere Out of the world ! In she plunged boldly, No matter how coldly The rough river ran, — Over the brink of it, Picture it,...
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Prose and Verse, Volume 1

Thomas Hood - 1845 - 434 pages
...Feelings had changed : Love, by harsh evidence, Thrown from its eminence ; Even God's providence Seeming estranged. Where the lamps quiver So far in the river,...hurl'd— Anywhere, anywhere Out of the world ! In she plunged boldly, No matter how coldly The rough river ran, — Over the brink of it, Picture it,...
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