 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 - 293. oldalszerző: Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell - 1850Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Meta Lander - 1861 - 354 oldal
...blest." KUBLE. " We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her heart the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently...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... | |
 | Jesus Christ - 1852 - 168 oldal
...while before entreated us " for her sake to control our feelings." " 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 our hopes belied; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping... | |
 | J. B. Syme - 1852 - 196 oldal
...DEATH-BED. BT THOMAS HOOD. WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As on her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro....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... | |
 | Samuel Irenæus Prime - 1852 - 172 oldal
...JAMES ALDRICH. WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her heart the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently...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... | |
 | Martha Noyes Williams - 1853 - 290 oldal
...God " giveth his beloved sleep." THE DEATH BED. THE DEATH BED. 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... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 oldal
...although no man ever composed more powerful serious poetry. How touching is this! 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... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1853 - 646 oldal
...memory and understanding, but likewise in the affections. 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 she seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out.... | |
 | David Trevena Coulton - 1853 - 316 oldal
...up-stairs to watch by her sister's head. " She watch'd her sleeping through the night, Her breathing, faint and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro." By ten o'clock the next day a note was placed in the surgeon's hands — " MY DEAR SIR. — Your poor... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1854 - 536 oldal
...you remember. They ure contained in a little poem called The Death-led — 'We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 350 oldal
...remember. They are contained in a little poem called The Deathbed — " We watch'd 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... | |
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