 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 Family friend [ed. by R.K. Philp]. - Pagina 381geredigeerd door Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - 1922 - 1032 pagina’s
...low, As in her breast the wave of life So silently we seem'd to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out....thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. For when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed—she... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pagina’s
...night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. * * * * . Genesis. VI. 4. 20 Antiquity, what is it else (God...excepted) but man's authority born some ages before us? N she died. HOOD — Tht Death-bed. 7 Pallida mors sequo pulsat pede pauperurn tabernas Regumque turres.... | |
 | Friedrich W. D. Brie - 1923 - 328 pagina’s
...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!...thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died! 12 For when the morn came dim and sad — And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - 1922 - 1920 pagina’s
...seem'd to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. 8 Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes...thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. I2 For when the morn came dim and sad And chill with early showers. Her quiet eyelids closed—... | |
 | Jay Arthur Myers - 1924 - 242 pagina’s
...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....thought her dying when she slept And sleeping when she died. For when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed... | |
 | 1925 - 582 pagina’s
...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....thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. For when the morn came dim and sad And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed... | |
 | 1926 - 906 pagina’s
...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....thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. "For when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed... | |
 | 1926 - 780 pagina’s
...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....hopes belied — We thought her dying when she slept. For when the morn came dim and sad And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had... | |
 | Edwin Markham - 1927 - 402 pagina’s
...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....hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — For when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed —... | |
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