 | 1856 - 754 pages
...creature, whom he commends to the mercies of her Creator : — Perishing gloomily, Spurred by contumely, Cold inhumanity, Burning insanity. Into her rest....dumbly, Over her breast ! Owning her weakness, Her ilUwhaviour, And leaving, with meekness, Her sins to her Saviour ! And who has lifted his voice more... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1857 - 420 pages
...with the daring Last look of despairing Fix'd on futurity. Perishing gloomily, Spurr'd by contumely, Cold inhumanity, Burning insanity, Into her rest....meekness, Her sins to her Saviour ! THE SONG OF THE S1IIBT. WITH fingers weary and worn, With eyelids'heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - 1857 - 308 pages
...the daring Last look of despairing, Fixed on futurity. " Perishing gloomily . * Spurred by contumely, Cold inhumanity, Burning insanity, Into her rest.—...dumbly Over her breast! " Owning her weakness, Her evil behavior, And leaving with meekness Her sins to her Saviour!" j. When tragedies more terrible than... | |
 | Martha Griffith Browne - 1857 - 390 pages
...there to weep and water the spot with tributary tears. " Perishing gloomily, '• Spurred by contumely, Cold inhumanity. Burning insanity, Into her rest,...hands humbly, As if praying dumbly, Over her breast." CHAPTEE XXV. CONVERSATION OF THE FATHER AND SON — THE DISCOVERY ; ITS CONSEQUENCES — DEATH OF THE... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1858 - 332 pages
...daring Last look of despairing Fixed on futurity. Perishing gloomily, Spurred by contumely, 241 II Cold inhumanity, Burning insanity, Into her rest,...leaving, with meekness, Her sins to her Saviour ! The vigour of this poem is no less remarkable than its pathos. The versification, although carrying the... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - 1858 - 314 pages
...daring Last look of despairing, Fixed on futurity. " Perishing gloomily Spurred by contumely, Gold inhumanity, Burning insanity, Into her rest. — Cross...Over her breast ! " Owning her weakness, Her evil behavior, And leaving with meekness Her sins to her Saviour!" When tragedies more terrible than any... | |
 | Frederick William Robertson - 1858 - 376 pages
...sinner; and bids you place her in the attitude in which alone you have a right to regard her now — " Cross her hands humbly, As if praying dumbly, Over...Owning her weakness, Her evil behaviour, And leaving in meekness Her sins to her Saviour." I should not like to be the woman who could read that poem without... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1858 - 388 pages
...eontumely, 341 1 I Cold inhumanity, Burning insanity, Cross her hunda humbly, As if praying dumbly, 1) ver her breast ! Owning her weakness, Her evil behaviour, And leaving, with meekness. Her eins to her Saviour ! The vigour of this poem is no less remarkable than its pathos. The versifieation,... | |
 | Plague Spot - 1859 - 632 pages
...with the daring Last look of despairing Fix'd on Futurity. " Perishing gloomily, Spurr'd by contumely, Cold inhumanity, Burning insanity, Into her rest —...And leaving with meekness Her sins to her Saviour." And these the frail beings who were destined by a gracious Providence to confer blessings upon mankind... | |
 | Harvey Marriott - 1859 - 284 pages
...when the daring Last look of despairing Fixed on futurity. Perishing gloomily, Spurned by contumely, Cold inhumanity, Burning insanity, Into her rest....evil behaviour, And leaving with meekness Her sins with her SAVIOCK. THOMAS HOOD. THE TWO SWORDS. ON the wooded v bank of a winding stream A red-skinned... | |
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Dreadfully staring Through muddy impurity, As when with the daring Last look of despairing Fixed on futurity. Perishing gloomily, Spurred by contumely, Cold inhumanity, ; Burning insanity, Into her rest, — Cross her hands humbly, As if praying dumbly,... 
