 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
 | Thomas Hood - 1854 - 424 oldal
...Oh, God ! to think Man ever Conies too near his Home ! 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 moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1854 - 730 oldal
...hope, to thee, my God ! my God \ I come ! I come ! THE DEATH-BED. WE watch'd her breathing through tta 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 moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her heing out. Our... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1854 - 480 oldal
...think Man ever Comes too near Ms Horn©' THE DEATH-BED. WE watch'd her breathing thro 5 the Bight* Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro, So silently we seemM to speak? So slowly mov'd about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our... | |
 | 1854 - 460 oldal
...could not resist such an appeal, and so I remained with the dear ones, who " watched her breath'ng through the night — Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept h laying to and fro.1' She had long been so extremely weak that she could not raise her head from the... | |
 | William Wells Brown - 1855 - 338 oldal
...has lived. In one of his own poems, "The Death-Bed," how sweetly he sang : " 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 when... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 428 oldal
...aspect of death in its gentleness, and of death in its terrible tragedy. "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 when... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 424 oldal
...aspect of death in its gentleness, and of death in its terrible tragedy. "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 when... | |
 | M. J. P. R. - 1855 - 110 oldal
...gently bore away her infant spirit to the presence of her loved Redeemer. " We watched her breathing through the night, ,Her breathing, soft and low, As...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. "... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 586 oldal
...specimen of his serious sweetness and delicate fancy, take the "Death-Bed." " We watch'd her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As...of life Kept heaving to and fro. " So silently we seemM to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. "Our... | |
 | 1855 - 1226 oldal
...specimen of his serious sweetness and delicate fancy, take the "Death Bed." " 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 oko her living out. Our... | |
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