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" One more Unfortunate, Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death! Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care; Fashioned so slenderly, Young, and so fair ! Look at her garments Clinging like cerements; Whilst the wave constantly Drips from her... "
The Elocutionist's Annual ...: Comprising New and Popular Readings ... - Page 155
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Sunshine in the workhouse

Emma Sheppard - Charity - 1809 - 104 pages
...mournful pity for these " unfortunates ? " THE BRIDGE OF SIGHR " Drown'd I drown'd ! " — HAMLCT. ONE more Unfortunate, Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death ! Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care ; Fashion'd so slenderly, Young, and so fair 1 Look at her...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...that its tone could reach the rich ! — She sang this ' ' Song of the Shirt ! " TBE BRIDGE OF SIGHS. ONE more unfortunate, Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death ! Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care ! Fashioned so slenderly — Young, and so fair! Look at...
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The Lowell Offering

American literature - 1844 - 302 pages
...This sudden movement awoke me, and I found it, alas ! but a dream. ROSINA. EDITOKI AL. THE SUICIDE. One more unfortunate, Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death ! Perishing gloomily, Take her up tenderly, Lilt her with care; Fashion'd so slenderly, Young and so...
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Prose and Verse, Volumes 1-2

Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 pages
...appeased my conscience, and absolved my soul. THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS, " Drowned ! drowned ["—HAMLET. ONE more Unfortunate, Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death ! Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care ; Fashion'd so slenderly, Young, and so fair! Look at her...
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Prose and Verse, Volume 1

Thomas Hood - English literature - 1845 - 434 pages
...appeased my conscience, and absolved my soul. [HE BRIDGE OF SIGHS " Drowned ! drowned !"— HAMLET. ONE more Unfortunate, Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death J Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care ;Fashion'd so slenderly, Young, and so fair ! Look at her...
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The Village Paupers and Other Poems

George Williams Fulcher - Poor laws - 1845 - 234 pages
...deeds ; — to warn and save Youth, in its wild career, from guilt's untimely grave. THE SUICIDE. " One more unfortunate weary of breath, Rashly importunate gone to her death, Take her up tenderly, lift her with care, Fashion'd so slenderly, young and so fair." Struggling with...
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The Pioneer: Or, Leaves from an Editor's Portfolio

Henry Clapp - American literature - 1846 - 238 pages
...can read : " EMANCIPATION" ; I can wait, I can wait! / -^4- THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS. ^ ~J BY THOMAS HOOD. One more unfortunate, Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death ! Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care ; Fashioned so slenderly, Young, and so fair! Look at her...
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Poems, Volume 2

Thomas Hood - 1846 - 672 pages
...appeased my conscience, and absolved my soul. [HE BRIDGE OF SIGHS " Drowned ! drowned !" — HAMLET. ONE more Unfortunate. Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death ! Take her up tendeny, Lift her with care ; Fashion'd so slenderly, Young, and so fair ! Look at her...
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Voices of the True-hearted

American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...you hear the endearing expression, My Mother ! THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS. " Drowned ! drowned !"—Hamlet. One more Unfortunate, Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death ! Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care ; Fashion'd so slenderly, Young, and so fair ! Look at her...
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Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art, Volume 7

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...
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