 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...  The Papers of Pastor Felix - Seite 268von Arthur John Lockhart - 1903 - 386 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Thomas Hood - 1861 - 394 Seiten
...breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seem'd to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her...morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, LINES ON SEEING MY WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN SLEEPING IN THE SAME CHAMBER. AND has the earth lost its so... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 224 Seiten
...her breast the 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...sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours. HOOD. 151. MINISTRY OF ANGELS. How oft do they their silver... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1861 - 520 Seiten
...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,...hopes belied — We thought her dying when she slept, Ar d sleeping when she died. For when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her... | |
 | 1861 - 356 Seiten
...through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes...sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed, she had Another morn than ours. The silver cord in twain is snapped, The golden bowl is broken,... | |
 | Pennsylvania-German Society - 1903 - 680 Seiten
...lent her half our powers To eke her being out. Our very hope belied our fears ; Our fears our hope belied : We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. But when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed ; she had... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson - 1984 - 1572 Seiten
...through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. t. About the trochee used for an iambus, as we see it in the beginning of the line, Whether thou cho being out. Our very hopes belied our fears; Our fears our hopes belied; We thought her dying when she... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 Seiten
...Young, and so fair! (1. 1—8) BeLS; EBEV; EnRP; FaPoR; FPL; GTBS; GTBS-P; OBEV; WBLP The Death-Bed 3 eye. BeLS; BoTP; EnRP; FaBoBe; FaBV; FaFP; FaPON; FPL; GN; GoTS (1. 1 1-12) EnRP; GTBS; GTBS-P; NOBE; OBD; OBEV; OBNC Faithless Nelly Gray Ben Battle was a soldier... | |
 | Michael Wheeler - 1994 - 314 Seiten
...she had Another morn than ours!18 The chiasmus at the heart of the poem, and of my present theme - 'We thought her dying when she slept, / And sleeping when she died' - is worked for from the opening line of the poem, where a gentle pressure is first applied to the... | |
 | Alexander Crummell - 1995 - 298 Seiten
...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 Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she slept,... | |
 | Christine Quigley - 1996 - 372 Seiten
...allows his victims to doze off and to take their leave without pain. Thomas Hood (d. 1845) writes: Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes...dying when she slept. And sleeping when she died. Death is omnipresent, as Percy Shelley (d. 1822) points out in singsong rhyme: "Death is here and death... | |
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