 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 Christian Parlor Magazine - Halaman 161847Tampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 halaman
...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...fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dymg when she slept, For when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids... | |
 | Martha Noyes Williams - 1853 - 292 halaman
...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 being out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied ; We thought her dying when... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1854 - 424 halaman
...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...sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours. LIJ\TES ON SEEING MY WIFE AND TWO CHILDBEN SLEEPING IN THE... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 350 halaman
...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...sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours." " Thomas Hood has now another morn than ours — may that... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1854 - 536 halaman
...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...sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had LINES ON SEEING MY WIFE AXD TWO CHILDREN SLEEPING IN THE SAME CHAMUER. AND has the... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1854 - 480 halaman
...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...eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears s Our fears our hopes belied™ We thought her dying when she slept^ And sleeping when she died. For... | |
 | 1878 - 876 halaman
...of friends whose hopes, in the words of one who rests within these walls, belied their fears : "But when the morn came, dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours." One of the first names to catch the eye is that of John... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1854 - 730 halaman
...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 heing out. Our very hopes belied our fears ; Our fears our hopes belied ; We thought her dying when... | |
 | William Wells Brown - 1855 - 338 halaman
...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...sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours." Thomas Hood has another morn ; may that morn have brightened... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 586 halaman
...her breast the wave 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...sad, And chill with early showers. Her quiet eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours." As a companion piece we quote two remarkable stanzas, to... | |
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