 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 - Page 161847Full view - About this book
 | Henry Reed - 1857
...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 hod Another morn than onrs." — flood. What perfect tranquillity and sense of resignation... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1857 - 22 pages
...night, His breathing soft and low, As in his breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. " And when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, His quiet eyelids closed, — he had Another morn than ours." We linger here a few moments to take... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1858
...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...morn came, dim and sad, And chill with early showers, HT quiet eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours. THE MID-WATCH. KB SHBBIDAN.] [Music by... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858
...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...For when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with enrly showers, Her quiet eyelids clos'd — she had Another morn than ours. Hood. LAOO VABESE. I stood... | |
 | 1895
...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...dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died." Thus, while adhering roughly to the divisions "comic" and "serious," it is necessary to keep in view... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literary Criticism - 1858
...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...dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. The sight of sleeping childhood is often suggestive, to their elders, of the more solemn rest that... | |
 | 1864
...her breast the 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...sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours." CBICKET. REMINISCENCES OF CRICKET AT A PUBLIC SCHOOL. THE... | |
![Studies in English poetry [an anthology] with biogr. sketches and notes by J ...](http://bks6.books.google.ca/books?id=1FcCAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl "Studies in English poetry [an anthology] with biogr. sketches and notes by J ...") | Joseph Payne - 1859
...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 Another morn than ours. (1) Wurly doting— to dote, connected with the Dutch duttm,... | |
 | Severn river - 1859
...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...dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. HOOD. Servetqve Sepulcro. A. Ergo non redituras ibit Héctor Qva diris manibus furens Achilles Patroclum... | |
 | 1859
...breast the wave of life, Kept heavirg to and fro. So silently we 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 belied — We thought her dying when she... | |
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