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... Verselets, Latin and English - 66. oldalszerző: John Hoskyns Abrahall - 1863 - 118 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
| 1831 - 702 oldal
...colder than when I saw them at the cottage. THE DEATH-BED. BY T. HOOD. 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 seemed to speak — So slowly moved about ! As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out... | |
| Bela Bates Edwards - 1832 - 338 oldal
...breeze, And the firm foliage of the larger trees. LESSON LI. Close of Life.—ANONYMOUS. WE watched her breathing through the night Her breathing soft...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.... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 oldal
...'t is little Joy To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy. THE DEATH- BED. watched her breathing through the night Her breathing soft...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... | |
| Margaret De Courcy, Beatrice De Courcy - 1832 - 500 oldal
...alas ! — We watched her hreathing throngh the night, Her hreathing soft and low, And in her hreath the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved ahout ; As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out.... | |
| Alexander Whitelaw - 1835 - 476 oldal
...loud and vehement. THE DEATH-BED. WE watch'd her breathing through the uight, Her breathing soft :md low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro 1 So silentty we seemed to speak — So slowly moved about ! As we had lent her half our powers To... | |
| Samuel Spring, Gardiner Spring - 1836 - 228 oldal
...restoring her, while Giafar pursued slowly his sad and solitary way towards his abode. CHAPTER XI. We watch'd her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As o'er her heart the waves of life Came heaving to and fro. * ***** Our very hopes belied our fears,... | |
| Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 482 oldal
...pride ; And so I won my Genevieve, My bright and beauteous bride. THE DEATH-BED.— Anon. We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft...of life . Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak — So slowly moved about — As we had lent her half our life, Our very hopes belied... | |
| 1845 - 458 oldal
...Hood, (which we extract from Longfellow's collection.) be told more simply in prose ? " We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft...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 oldal
...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... | |
| 1846 - 608 oldal
...DEATH-BED. XT THE LATE THOMAS HOOD. WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and Tow, 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... | |
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