 Fashion'd so slenderly, 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 ! Dreadfully staring Through muddy impurity, As when with the daring...  The Works of Thomas Hood - Page 146by Thomas Hood - 1864Full view - About this book
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1876 - 522 pages
...Decently, — kindly, — Smooth, and compose them; And her eyes, close them, Staring so blindly 1 Dreadfully staring Through muddy impurity, As when...hands humbly, As if praying dumbly, Over her breast I Owning her weakness, Her evil behavior, And leaving, with meekness, Her sins to her Savior 1 The... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 300 pages
...frigidly Stiffen too rigidly, Decently, kindly, Smooth and compose them; And her eyes, close them, Staring so blindly! Dreadfully staring Through muddy impurity,...Burning insanity, Into her rest! Cross her hands humbly, i As if praying dumbly, Over her breast! Owning her weakness, Her evil behavior, And leaving, with... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1876 - 420 pages
...Manl 13. Take her Tip tenderly, Lift her with care, Fashioned so slenderly, Young, and so fair ! 14. Perishing gloomily, Spurred by contumely, Cold inhumanity,...hands humbly, As if praying dumbly, Over her breast I 15. Owning her weakness, Her evil behavior, And leaving, with meekness, Her sins to her Savior I... | |
 | Francis Jacox - Bible - 1876 - 628 pages
...speculation." What a picture, word-painted, is that other one by Hood of the drowned woman's eyes " staring so blindly ! Dreadfully staring, through muddy impurity,...daring last look of despairing fixed on futurity." Mr. Dickens gives us, in the midst of the dolls with no speculation in their eyes, " the prostrate... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - American literature - 1922 - 1920 pages
...rigidly, Decently, kindly, Smooth and compose them ; And her eyes, close them, Staring so blindly! 8» 127 Dreadfully staring Through muddy impurity, As when...daring Last look of despairing Fixed on futurity. 94 Perishing gloomily, Spurred by contumely, Cold inhumanity, Burning insamty, 1nto her rest. — Cross... | |
 | Egerton Smith - English language - 1923 - 352 pages
...stanzas, for instance, has the rimes fimoer, hour, which hover between the masculine and feminine types. Perishing gloomily, Spurred by contumely, Cold inhumanity, Burning insanity, Into her rest. But ordinarily, especially when the rime is also ' broken ', tumbling rime is somewhat of a (our de... | |
 | Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - English literature - 1924 - 942 pages
...Stiffen too rigidly, Decently, kindly, Smooth and compose them ; And her eyes, close them, f Staring on my works, ye Mighty, and despair I" behaviour, And leaving with meekness, Her sins to her Saviour ! THE SONG OF THE SHIRT WITH fingers... | |
 | Robert Haven Schauffler - American poetry - 1925 - 490 pages
...impurity, As when with the daring Last look of despairing Fix'd on futurity. Perishing gloomily, Spurr'd by contumely, Cold inhumanity, Burning insanity, Into...dumbly, Over her breast! Owning her weakness, Her evil behaviour, And leaving, with meekness, Her sins to her Saviour! From TOWN PICTURES1 BY ERNEST CROSBY... | |
 | Robert Shafer - American literature - 1926 - 1410 pages
...too rigidly, Decently, — kindly, — Smooth, and compose them; And her eyes, close them, Staring instincts. What a contrast between the well-clad,...watch, a pencil, and a bill of exchange in his pocket, Saviorl 584 585 The vigor of this poem is no less remarkable than its pathos. The versification, although... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - American literature - 1926 - 230 pages
...Stiffen too rigidly, Decently — kindly — Smooth, and compose them; And her eyes, close them, Staring so blindly! Dreadfully staring Through muddy impurity....hands humbly, As if praying dumbly, Over her breast 1 Owning her weakness, Her evil behavior, And leaving, with meekness, Her sins to her Savior! The vigor... | |
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