 Look at her garments Clinging like cerements; Whilst the wave constantly Drips from her clothing; Take her up instantly, Loving, not loathing,— Touch her not scornfully; Think of her mournfully, Gently and humanly; ' Not of the stains of her— All...  The Works of Thomas Hood - Page 143by Thomas Hood - 1864Full view - About this book
 | Henry Clapp - American literature - 1846 - 238 pages
...brink of it : Picture it, think of it, Dissolute man ! Lave in it, drink of it, Then, if you can ! Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care : Fashioned so slenderly, Young, and so fair ! Bre her limbs frigidly Stiffen too rigidly, Decently, kindly, Smooth and compose them ; And her eyes,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 620 pages
...gem of perfect purity — this crystallized tear : — "One more unfortunate, Weary of breath, Kashly importunate, Gone to her death '. " Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care ; Fnshion'd so slenderly, Young, and so fair H$ " Look at her garments Clinging like cerements; Whilst... | |
 | Harriet Maria Gordon Smythies - 1847 - 366 pages
...which a something seemed to tell her, Janet had wound up her hapless and most faulty life. CHAPTER XXI. Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care, Fashioned so slenderly, Young and so fair ! While the wave constantly Drips from her clothing, Take hei up instantly, Loving not loathing ! Still... | |
 | Mrs. Gordon Smythies - 1848 - 380 pages
...which a something seemed to tell her, Janet had wound up her hapless and most faulty life. CHAPTEEXXI. Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care, Fashioned so slenderly, Young and so fair ! While the wave constantly Drips from her clothing, Take her up instantly, Loving not loathing! Still... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1849 - 430 pages
...appeased my conscience, and absolved my soul. [RE BRIDGE OF SIGHS. " Drowned ! drowned !" — HAMLET ONE more Unfortunate, Weary of breath, Rashly importunate,...death .' Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care ;Fashion'd so slenderly, Young, and so fair ! Look at her garments Clinging like cerements ; Wlv' it... | |
 | 430 pages
...brink of it. Picture it— think of it, Dissolute Man ! Lave in it, drink of it, Then, if you can ! Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care , Fashioned so slenderly, Young, and so fair ! Ere her limbs frigidly Stiffen too rigidly. Decently,— kindly, — Smooth, and compose them ; And... | |
 | Crime - 1849 - 610 pages
...ВГ THOMAS HOOD. "Drowned f Drowned ."'—HAMLET. One more Unfortunate, Weary of breath, Ran til y importunate, Gone to her death ! Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care; " FfwliioncJ 1*0 elenderly, Young, and so dir ! I.onk ut tier f arm en tí Clinging like ceremonia;... | |
 | English literature - 1849 - 292 pages
...eannot be read without the involuntary aeeompaniment of Hood's pathetie musie running in the brain. " One more unfortunate, Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death. • * * Mad from life's history, Glad to death's mystery Swift to be hurl'd— Any where, any where... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - Periodicals - 1850 - 438 pages
...it, permit me to offer the universally appreciated " Bridge of Sighs." 236 THE POETIC PRINCIPLE. 237 One more Unfortunate, Weary of breath, Rashly Importunate, Gone to her death 1 Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care ; — Fashioned so slenderly, Young, and BO fair ! Look... | |
 | Eliza Cook - 1850 - 432 pages
...him, too, for that companion piece, "The Bridge of Sighs," where he sees, in one of these outcasts " One more unfortunate, Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death ! " And with all the kindliness of his child-like nature* tells us to " Take her up tenderly," and... | |
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