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" The bleak wind of March Made her tremble and shiver ; But not the dark arch, Or the black flowing river ; Mad from life's history, Glad to death's mystery, Swift to be... "
Recollections of a Literary Life, Or, Books, Places and People - Page 432
by Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 558 pages
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Sunshine in the workhouse

Emma Sheppard - 1809 - 104 pages
...flowing river: Mad from life's history, Glad to death's mystery Swift to be hurl'd— Anywhere, anywhere Out of the world ! In she plunged boldly No matter...you can ! Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care ; Fashion'd so slenderly, Young, and so fair ! Ere her limbs frigidly Stiffen too rigidly, Decently,...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...river; Mad from 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...care ! Fashioned so slenderly — Young and so fair I Ere her limbs frigidly, Stiffen too rigidly. Decently, kindly, Smooth and compose them; And her eyes,...
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Prose and Verse, Volumes 1-2

Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 pages
...river : Mad from life's history, Glad to death's mystery, Swift to be hurl'd— Anywhere, anywhere Out of the world ! In she plunged boldly, No matter...you can ! Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care ; Fashion'd so slenderly, Young, and so fair ! Ere her limbs frigidly Stiffen too rigidly, Decently,...
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Prose and Verse, Volume 1

Thomas Hood - 1845 - 434 pages
...river : Mad from life's history, Glad to death's mystery, Swift to be hurl'd— Anywhere, anywhere Out of the world ! In she plunged boldly, No matter...you can ! Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care ; Fashion'd so slenderly, Young, and so fair ! Ere her limbs frigidly Stiffen too rigidly, Decently,...
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The Pioneer: Or, Leaves from an Editor's Portfolio

Henry Clapp - 1846 - 228 pages
...river: Mad from life's history, Glad to death's mystery, Swift to be hurled,— Anywhere, anywhere Out of the world! In she plunged boldly,— No matter...Young, and so fair ! Ere her limbs frigidly Stiffen too rigidly, Decently, kindly, Smooth and compose them ; And her eyes, close them, Staring so blindly...
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The Pioneer: Or, Leaves from an Editor's Portfolio

Henry Clapp - 1846 - 238 pages
...river: Mad from life's history, Glad to death's mystery, Swift to be hurled, — Anywhere, anywhere Out of the world ! In she plunged boldly, — No matter...care : Fashioned so slenderly, Young, and so fair ! Bre her limbs frigidly Stiffen too rigidly, Decently, kindly, Smooth and compose them ; And her eyes,...
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Poems, Volume 2

Thomas Hood - 1846 - 672 pages
...river : Mad from life's history, Glad to death's mystery, Swift to be hurl'd— Anywhere, anywhere Out of the world ! In she plunged boldly, No matter...you can ! Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care ; Fashion'd so slenderly, Young, and so fair ! Ere her limbs frigidly Stiffen too rigidly, Decently,...
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Voices of the True-hearted

1846 - 308 pages
...river : Mad from life's history, Glad to death's mystery, Swift to be hurl'd — Any where, any where, Out of the world ! In she plunged boldly, No matter...Dissolute Man ! Lave in it, drink of it, Then, if you can ! Smooth, and compose them; And her eyes, close them, Staring so blindly ! Dreadfully staring Through...
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The Dublin university magazine

University magazine - 1846 - 780 pages
...Swift tobohurl'd — Any where, any where Out of the world ! " In she plunged boldly, No matter now coldly The rough river ran — Over the brink of it,...you can ! " Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care ; Fashion'd so slenderly, Young, and so fair ! " Ere her limbs frigidly Stiffen too rigidly, Decently,...
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 83

1846 - 588 pages
...improvement in expression, is striking enough ; but what shall be said of the stanza that follows ? — ' In she plunged boldly, No matter how coldly The rough...— Picture it — think of it, Dissolute man ! Lave of it — drink of it Then, if you can.' This seems to us the very gallop of false verse, and as far...
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