With despair tugging at their hearts, the three stood looking at the wreckage.

He shrieked his despair aloud, he was half mad, he wished to kill himself, saying that he was the murderer and that he ought to have prevented Rose from so rashly riding home through the storm!

" She cast herself down upon the side of the bed and clenched her hands in the fierceness of despair anddecision.

O caress thy child Whom weariness, regret, despair assail With sighing of thy groves in the soft wind beguiled, With sunbeams of thy Springtime smiling fair and mild, And with the liquid song of nightingales!

The glory of a man or of a woman is the real presence of spiritual love, which brings peace to homes, alleviation to burdens, consolation to sufferings, rest to labors, hope to anxieties, and a sublime repose amid the changes of the world,that blessed flower of perennial sweetness and beauty which Adam in his despair bore away from Eden, and which alone almost compensated him for the loss of Paradise.

" "But let a maid thy pity share, Whom love has taught to stray; Who seeks for rest, but finds despair Companion of her way.

He was sinking into the state of nervous dejection in which men lose their faith in orthodox advice, and in despair consult quacks, astrologers, and nursery storytellers.

Thou risest up: the earth is fair, The wind is cool and free; As when a dream of mad despair Dissolves in ecstasy.

yet is "their hope full of immortality:" yet doth it not so rear, as despair doth deject; this violent and sour passion of despair, is of all perturbations most grievous, as [6690]Patritius holds.

Is it where the fires are, and despair dwells?

" "Neither at bed, nor yet at board, Will any rest despair afford.

Though sad despair hath almost drown'd my hopes, Yet would I pass the burning vaults of Ork, As erst did Hercules to fetch his love, If I might meet my love upon the strond, And but enjoy her love one minute of an hour.

"What is thisa despair meeting?" he called cheerily.

But after a year had elapsed a mysterious voice addressed him, saying:"Be patient, and despair notthou hast only to send another army against the Demons, and the triumph and the victory will be thine.

this heart o' mine is crowded to bursting with the despair o' hundreds.

6 For never shall my soul despair Her pardon to procure, Who knows thy only Son has died To make that pardon sure.

TO THE "RING NEBULA" O pallid spectre of the midnight skies, Whose phantom features in the dome of Night Elude the keenest gaze of wistful eyes, Till amplest lenses aid the failing sight; On heaven's blue sea the farthest isle of fire, From thee, whose glories it would fain admire, Must vision, baffled, in despair retire!

Then the black hour of homesickness, vain regrets, foolish promises, and weak despair shuts down with the smell of strange earth and the cadence of strange tongues.

"But despair terrifies meI who never have known itand I do not understand how to meet it, how to cope with it in others, what to say or do.

" "Despair thy charm," said Macduff, "and let that lying spirit whom thou hast served, tell thee, that Macduff was never born of woman, never as the ordinary manner of men is to be born, but was untimely taken from his mother.

Rain and snow beat on the patient little figure going to and fro, each morning with hope and courage faintly shining, each evening with the shadow of despair gathering darker round her.