 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 Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: The literati - Seite 293von Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell - 1850Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1845 - 458 Seiten
...we extract from Longfellow's collection.) be told more simply in prose ? " We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As...her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. 1845.] Verse and Prose. 219 " So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent... | |
 | 1846 - 602 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 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...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 slept, And sleeping... | |
 | 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...about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied ; We thought her dying when... | |
 | 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...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 dim and tad,... | |
 | 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 - 186 Seiten
...all suffering seemed to have passed away. And, in that silent chamber, " They watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As...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 ; —... | |
 | 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 - 308 Seiten
...wrongs of night: Sweet Phosphor, bring the day! THE DEATH-BED. Bt THOMAS HOOD. We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As...her half our powers To eke her being out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied ; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping... | |
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