 | Moncure Daniel Conway - American periodicals - 1860 - 794 pages
...The suicide, so slender and fair, is borne up by tender hands, and in the heart is the dirge — " Oh, it was pitiful, Near a whole city full, Home she had none I " It is well that next to the heart pierced by the threaded needle should be the story of the self-destroyed... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1861 - 482 pages
...Of Christian charity Under the sun ! O, it was pitiful ! Near a whole city fall, Home she had none. .Feelings had changed.: Love, by harsh evidence, Thrown...providence Seeming estranged. Where the lamps quiver ISo far in the river. With many a light From window and casement. From garret to basement, She stood... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1861 - 520 pages
...and a nearer one Yet, than all other 1 Alas for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun ! O, it was pitiful ! Near a whole city full, Home she had none. Feelings had changed : Love, by harsh evidence, Thrown from its eminence ; Even God's providence Seeming... | |
 | George Hebert - 1862 - 328 pages
...dearer one Still, and a nearer one Yet, than all other ? Alas ! for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun ! Oh ! it was pitiful ! Near a whole city full, Home she had none '. THOMAS HOOD. WILLIE ATHEETON had sown the good seed in patience and faith, the winter had past,... | |
 | Benjamin Smith (Wesleyan Minister.) - Preaching - 1863 - 368 pages
...she a sister ? Had she a brother ?— Alas for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun ! 0 ! it was pitiful, Near a whole city full, Home she had...From window and casement, From garret to basement, Houseless by night ! " The bleak wind of March Made her tremble and shiver ; But not the dark arch,... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 530 pages
...dearer one Still, and a nearer one Yet, than all other ? 7 Alas ! for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun ! Oh ! it was pitiful ! Near a whole city full Home she had none I 8 Sisterly, brotherly, Fatherly, motherly Fzelings had changed : Love by harsh evidence Thrown from... | |
 | Mary Sewell - 1863 - 344 pages
...APPENDIX. oir t0 t|t Jalltn. BY MRS. GW SHEPPARD. " And Jesus said unto her : Go, and sin no more." "Oh! it was pitiful ! Near a whole city full, Home she had none." FOR many years past my sympathies have been drawn out to the class of " unfortunate girls," who are... | |
 | Hannah Bradbury Goodwin - American fiction - 1863 - 416 pages
...visit Madge, in the dreary loneliness of a strange city. CHAPTEE XXII. MADGE IN PURSUIT OF LODGINGS. " Oh it was pitiful ; Near a whole city full, Home she had none."— HOOD. '' PASSENGERS for Preston ! " shouted the conductor, as the long train of cars whizzed into the... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1866 - 332 pages
...dearer one Still, and a nearer one Yet, than all other ? Alas ! for the rarity Of Christian charityj Under the sun ! Oh, it was pitiful ! Near a whole...evidence, Thrown from its eminence ; Even God's providence Seemed estranged. Where the lamps quiver So far in the river, With many a light From window and casement... | |
 | Nathaniel Kirk Richardson - Readers - 1866 - 204 pages
...Oh! it was pitiful! Near a whole city full, Sisterly, brotherly, Fatherly, motherly, Feelings were changed; Love, by harsh evidence, Thrown from its...lamps quiver So far in the river, With many a light Houseless by night. From window and casement, From garret to basement, She stood, with amazement, The... | |
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Had she a brother ? Or was there a dearer one Still, and a nearer one Yet, than all other ? Alas ! for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun ! Oh ! it was pitiful ! Near a whole city full, Home she had none. 
