The Pines-those old gigantic Pines, That writhe-recalling soon The famous Human Group that writhes With Snakes in wild festoon- In ramous wrestlings interlaced A Forest Laocoon- Like Titans of primeval girth By tortures overcome, Their brown enormous limbs they twine, Bedew'd with tears of gum- Fierce agonies that ought to yell, But, like the marble, dumb.
"The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood"
Thomas Hood