Meanings
- not comparablepoeticTowards hope.First known use 19th c.
With a spectral gleam of joy / Shooting hopeward in the breast,
1850, G[eorge] Linnæus Banks, “Night in the Capital”, in Staves for the Human Ladder, London; Edinburgh; Dublin: Charles Gilpin; Adam and Charles Black; J. B. Gilpin, →OCLC, page 1032 more examples
As flower springs up to catch the breeze, / Smiles in the sunshine warm that fills / Its cup, though seldom falls it 'neath the trees, / So the heart rises hopeward 'mid its ills !
1856, Lydia Louisa Anna Very, “The Day”, in Poems, Andover: W. F. Draper, page 29For though my feet in silence move / Alone across this waste of hours, / My heart strains hopeward like a dove, / My soul bursts out in passion-flowers ;
1872, John Payne, “Shadow-soul”, in Songs of Life and Death, London: Henry S. King & Co., page 128
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