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
| Thomas Hood - 1857 - 420 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 half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — "We thought her dying when... | |
| Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1858 - 292 Seiten
...harmony." WE WATCHED HER BREATHING IN THE NlGHT. T. HOOD.] [JfnuV by J. BLOCKLBT, We watch'd her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As...wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seem'd to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our... | |
| Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 Seiten
...achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait. Loiigfellow. THE DEATHBED. We watch'd her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As...wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seem'd to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our... | |
| Bishop - 1859 - 224 Seiten
...spirits seemed higher, and his voice more cheerful than usual. CHAPTEE X. " We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low As in her breast the wave of life Kept ebbing to and fro." HOOD. THAT first thunder-peal scarcely brought more terror to the children on the... | |
| 1859 - 802 Seiten
...her breast the wave of life, Kept heavirg to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak — So slowl. moved about — As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living oai ! Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when... | |
| 1864 - 206 Seiten
...apparent to all, but are not so well known as they deserve to be. " We watched her breathing thro' the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the ware of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seem'd to speak. So slowly moved about, As we... | |
| Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 Seiten
...depth of earnest feeling, and a pathos not often surpassed. THE DEATHBED. WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As...wave of life Kept heaving to and fro ! So silently we seem'd to speak, — So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her being out... | |
| American Unitarian Association - 1860 - 706 Seiten
...begin. Fitting that, as gently she had lived, she should as gently die. " We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As...her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. " Our very hopes belied onr fears, Our fears our hopes belied ; We thought her dying when she slept,... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1861 - 520 Seiten
...; — O, God ! to think man ever Comes too near his home ! THE DEATH-BED. WE watched her breathing through the night Her breathing soft and low, As in...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... | |
| Thomas SHORTER - 1861 - 226 Seiten
...his uproar wild Speaks safety to his Island-child. 150. THE DEATH-BED. 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... | |
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