 | 1846 - 602 Seiten
...stronger. Like one of old, I glnry to have given, Out of my flock, an angel into Heaven. THE DEATH-BED. We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing...soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept hearing to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half... | |
 | 1871 - 878 Seiten
...death of his sister Anne, and first appeared (minus a verse) in a Glasgow University Album : — " We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breaat the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. " So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved... | |
 | 1863 - 1154 Seiten
...quietly, we hardly knew when she was gone. As the English Poet says : — We watched her breathing thro' the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast...living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied ; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. For when the morn... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1845 - 652 Seiten
...following tender lines from the tender heart of THOMAS HOOD : THE DEATH BED. WE watched her breathing thro' the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast...about, , As we had lent her half our powers To eke her being out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears cur hopes belied; We thought her dying when she... | |
 | 1845 - 888 Seiten
...watched her breathing thro' the night, Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied; Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed to...about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her being out. We thought her dying when she slept. And sleeping when she died. For when the morn came... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1845 - 186 Seiten
...stole over them, and all suffering seemed to have passed away. And, in that silent chamber, " They watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing...her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. " And when the morn rose dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed ; —... | |
 | 1845 - 916 Seiten
...There is much of fine feeling in the two following : — THE DEATH BED. We watch'd her breathing thro' the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast...wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seem'd to speak, So slowly mov'd about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1845 - 170 Seiten
...house. Mrs. Brandon sat by the bedside of her precious child, who seemed to be insensible. She watched " Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro." Suddenly, the apparently dying girl started, opened her eyes, and faintly articulated, — " I heard... | |
 | 1845 - 452 Seiten
...Death-bed," by Hood, (which we extract from Longfellow's collection.) be told more simply in prose ? Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life " We watched her breathing through the night, Kept heaving to and fro. " So silently we seemed to speak,... | |
 | 1846 - 610 Seiten
...stronger. Like one of old, I glory to have given, Out of my flock, an angel into Heaven. THE DEATH-BED. We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing...living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. For when the... | |
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WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very... 
