| Bela Bates Edwards - 1832 - 338 sider
...Close of Life.—ANONYMOUS. WE watched her breathing through the night Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to...dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. For ulini the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed—she had Another... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 sider
...when I was a boy. THE DEATH- BED. watched her breathing through the night Her breathing soft and low, As In her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to...half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belled our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping... | |
| Margaret De Courcy, Beatrice De Courcy - 1832 - 500 sider
...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. Our very hopes helied our fears —... | |
| Bela Bates Edwards - 1835 - 328 sider
...Life. — ANONYMOUS. / ' *" WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low^ As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to...living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our'hopes belied ; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. For when the morn... | |
| Alexander Whitelaw - 1835 - 476 sider
...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 sider
...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, Our fears our hopes...dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. BORNE down by grief and self-reproach, Giafar returned to his home. Life seemed a burden too heavy... | |
| 742 sider
...just as he did in that long sleep." I thought of Hood's fine lines, here only too applicable — " We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died." I took her quietly by the arm : " Come, dearest, lie down and rest." She resisted me with a look of... | |
| Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 482 sider
...bride. THE DEATH-BED.— Anon. We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life . Kept heaving to...slowly moved about — As we had lent her half our life, Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears, our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she... | |
| 1842 - 712 sider
...breathing soft and low, As o'er her heart the waves of life Came heaving to and fro. " And still our hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied...her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died !" A few words will conclude all that remains to be told. Edward never came again into contact with... | |
| Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 sider
...BY T. HOOD. WE watch'd her breathing thro' the night, Her breathings soft and low, As in her breath the wave of life, Kept heaving to and fro ! So silently...her living out! Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fear our hopes belied— We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died ; For when... | |
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