 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
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 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... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 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 enrly showers, Her quiet eyelids clos'd... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1858 - 292 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, HT quiet eyelids closed... | |
 | 1895 - 722 pagina’s
...catches a glimpse of his trick of antithesis which he has employed with such good effect elsewhere : " Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears, our hopes...thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died." Thus, while adhering roughly to the divisions "comic" and "serious," it is necessary to... | |
 | 1858 - 674 pagina’s
...imperceptible the passage from calm slumber to calmer death, so unobserved the merging of one in the other. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes...thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. The sight of sleeping childhood is often suggestive, to their elders, of the more solemn... | |
 | 1864 - 206 pagina’s
...ware 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... | |
 | Severn river - 1859 - 408 pagina’s
...mir baô @фwert um, la^ bao trauern ! Siebe ftirbt im Setf»e п{ф{. SCHILLER. The Sleep of Death. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes...thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. HOOD. Servetqve Sepulcro. A. Ergo non redituras ibit Héctor Qva diris manibus furens Achilles... | |
 | 1859 - 802 pagina’s
...seemed to speak — So slowl. moved about — As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living oai ! Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes...thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died ! For when the morn came dim and sad, And cbill witu early showers, Her qaht eyelids closrd... | |
 | Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 pagina’s
...we seem'd 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...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... | |
 | American Unitarian Association - 1860 - 706 pagina’s
...soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. " Our very hopes belied onr fears, Our fears our hopes belied ; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died." DANGERS OF SPIRITUALISM. THE case I am about to state is one illustrating this truth. Mr.... | |
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