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" 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, Over her breast !... "
Sunshine in the workhouse - Page 56
by Emma Sheppard - 1809 - 88 pages
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Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art, Volume 7

Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1850 - 462 pages
...Decently, — kindly, — Smooth, and compose them; And her eyes, close them, Staring so blindly 1 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...
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Prose and Verse

Thomas Hood - 1851 - 430 pages
...Ere her limbs frigidly Stiffen too rigidly, Decently, — kindly, — Smoothe, and compose them 5 Ana her eyes, close them, Staring so blindly ! Dreadfully...impurity, As when with the daring Last look of despairing Fixed on futurity. Perishing gloomily, Spurred by contumely, Cold inhumanity, Burning insanity, Into...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...so slenderly, Young and so fair! Ere her limbs frigidly Stiffen so rigidly, Decently, kindly, Smooth and compose them; • And her eyes close them, Staring...Dreadfully staring Through muddy impurity, As when the daring Last look of despairing Fixed on futurity. Perishing gloomily, Spurned by contumely, Cold...
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The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of Lectures

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 pages
...friend, who soothed and charmed so many hours, brought pleasure and sweet laughter to so many homes ; Fashion'd so slenderly, Young, and so fair ! Ere her...impurity, As when with the daring Last look of despairing Fixed on futurity. Perishing gloomily, Spurred by contumely, Cold inhumanity, Burning insanity, Into...
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The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: Poems and tales

Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 522 pages
...slenderly, Young, and so fair ! Ere her limbs frigidly Stiffen too rigidly, Decently,— kindiy, — Smooth, and compose them ; And her eyes, close them, Staring...impurity, As when with the daring Last look of despairing Fixed on futurity. Perishing gloomily, Spurred by contumely, Cold inhumanity, Burning insanity, Into...
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An Excursion Among the Poets

H. C. Foster - 1853 - 378 pages
...slenderly, Young, and so fair ! Ere her limbs frigidly Stiffen too rigidly, Decently, kindly, — Smooth and compose them. And her eyes, close them, Staring...Dreadfully staring Through muddy impurity, As when the daring Last look of despairing Fixed on futurity. Perishing gloomily, Spurred by contumely, Cold...
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The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of Lectures

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 306 pages
...friend, who soothed and charmed so many hours, brought pleasure and sweet laughter to so many homes ; Fashion'd so slenderly, Young, and so fair ! Ere her...impurity, As when with the daring Last look of despairing Fixed on futurity. Perishing gloomily, Spurred by contumely, Cold inhumanity, Burning insanity, Into...
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The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of Lectures

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 314 pages
...sweet laughter to so many homes ; Fashion'd so slenderly, Young, and so fair ! Ere her limbs frigid!/ Stiffen too rigidly, Decently — kindly — Smoothe...impurity, As when with the daring Last look of despairing Fixed on futurity. Perishing gloomily, Spurred by contumely, Cold inhumanity, Burning insanity, Into...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood, with a Biographical Sketch

Thomas Hood - 1854 - 536 pages
...Young, and so fair ! • Ere her limbs frigidly Stiffen too rigidly, Decently. — kindly. — Smooth, and compose them ; And her eyes, close them, Staring...impurity, As when with the daring Last look of despairing Fixed on futurity. Perishing gloomily, Spurred by contumely, Cold inhumanity, Burning insanity, Into...
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Prose & verse; v.2. Whimsicalities, Whims & oddities; v.3. Poems, Hood's own ...

Thomas Hood - 1854 - 428 pages
...Ere her limbs frigidly Stiffen too rigidly, Decently, — kindly, — Smoothe, and compose them j Ana her eyes, close them, Staring so blindly ! Dreadfully...muddy impurity, As when with the daring Last look of despairingFixed on futurity. Perishing gloomily, Spurred by contumely, Cold inhumanity. Burning insanity,...
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