Tag: sad
Tag Description:An Old Fan
A woman looks back with sadness upon her youth in this Victorian poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox from Poems of Pleasure, 1888. Illustrated with a vintage engraving from a 19th century fashion magazine that you can use as royalty-free clip art. An Old Fan It is soiled and quite passé, Broken too, and out of fashion, [...]
A Folk-Lore Legend: A Ghostly Victorian Poem
The ghost of a beloved departed mother returns to console her children, who are habitually beaten and abused by their evil stepmother in this Gothic Victorian poem. A Folk-Lore Legend By Catharine Allan, Peterson’s Magazine, 1884 “Come back to us mother,” the little ones cried; Come back to us, mother dear.” And they flung themselves [...]
Sad Victorian Boy Longs to be Set Free
The birds! The birds! How they mock him. Suffering from ennui with a side of malaise, all the young Master can do is wish for sunnier days and better circumstances as he pines away indoors. Perhaps you can find a good use for this vintage Victorian engraving, a Gothic bit of clip art as ever [...]
The Broken Hearted
I have seen the infant sinking down, like a stricken flower, to the grave—the strong man fiercely breathing out his soul upon the field of battle—the miserable convict standing upon the scaffold, with a deep curse quivering on his lips—I have viewed death in all his forms of darkness and vengeance with a tearless eye,—but [...]
