 Where the lamps quiver So far in the river, With many a light From window and casement, From garret to basement, She stood, with amazement, Houseless by night. The bleak wind of March Made her tremble and shiver; But not the dark arch, Or the black flowing...  Recollections of a Literary Life, Or, Books, Places, and People - Page 193by Mary Russell Mitford - 1853Full view - About this book
 | Edgar Allan Poe - American poetry - 1858 - 332 pages
...eminence ; Even God's providence Seeming estranged. Where the lamps quiver So far in the river, With many a light From window and casement, From garret...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 how coldly The rough... | |
 | Political ballads and songs - 1858 - 84 pages
...charity Under the sun; Oh! it was pitiful, Near a whole city full, Home s/te had none. The bleak winds of March Made her tremble and shiver But not the dark...history, Glad to death's mystery Swift to be hurled, Any where, any where. Out of the world. In she plunged boldly No matter how coldly The rough river... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - Blind - 1858 - 314 pages
...eminence; Ever God's providence Seeming estranged. " Where the lamps quiver So far in the river, With many a light From window and casement, From garret...night. " The bleak wind of March Made her tremble and shhrwrj But not the dark arch, 0 the black flowing river : Mad from life's history, Glad to death's... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - American poetry - 1858 - 388 pages
...providenee Seeming estranged. AYbcre the lamps quiver So far in the river, From window and easement, From garret to basement, She stood, with amazement, Houseless by night. The bleak wind of Mareh Made her tremble and shiver ; But not the dark areh, Or the blaek flowing river : With many a... | |
 | Literature - 1858 - 674 pages
...up the morn !" Sometimes it is fallen woman that utters her last wail on the Bridge of Sighs — " mad from life's history, glad to death's mystery, swift to be hurled — any where, any where out of the world !" Sometimes it is starving toil, feebly crooning the Song... | |
 | Puss in the corner pseud - 1858 - 508 pages
...some years that her name was added to the sad, strange, accusing record of those who have died — " Mad, from life's History, Glad, to Death's mystery, Swift to be hurled Any where ! any where ! Out of the world." CHAPTER XXXV. IT was Christmas day again, and gladly did... | |
 | Plague Spot - Great Britain - 1859 - 632 pages
...eminence ; Even. God's providence, Seeming estranged. " Where the lamps quiver, So far in the river, With many a light From window and casement, From garret...But not the dark arch, Or the black flowing river : l&adfrom life's history, Glad to death's mystery, Swift to be hurl'd — Any where, any where, Out... | |
 | American literature - 1859 - 528 pages
...estranged. Where the lamp* quiver So far in the river, With many a ligb* From window and «asement, From garret to basement, She stood, with amazement,...the black flowing river : Mad from life's history, Olad to death'.- mystery, Swift to be hurl'd — Anywhere, anywhere Out of the world ! In she plunged... | |
 | Elizabeth Proby - 1859 - 338 pages
...these melancholy surmises, came stealing over my memory those heart-rending lines of poor Hood — " Glad to death's mystery Swift to be hurled, Anywhere, anywhere, Out of the world." The moon shone brightly on that harrowing night: pale, placid moon, mother of thought, parent of high... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1859 - 860 pages
...pump it up ; but impatient for the end, the sequel soon came, and her corpse was recovered from the river. ' MAD, from life's history, Glad to death's mystery Swift to be hurled — Any where, any where, Out of the world.' The most interesting circumstance, which proves how curiously... | |
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