 | Thomas Hood - 1861 - 394 pàgines
...Oh, God ! to think Man ever Comes too near his Home ! THE DEATH-BED. WE watch'd her breathing thro' the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast...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. Our... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 224 pàgines
...his uproar wild Speaks safety to his Island-child. 150. THE DEATH-BED. watch'd her breathing thro' the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast...wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seem'd to speak, So slowly mov'd about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1861 - 482 pàgines
...broad leagues dissever Him from yonder foam ; — O, God ! to think man ever Comes too near his home ! THE DEATH-BED. WE watched her breathing through the...breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life S;o silently we seemed to speak^ So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our power& To eke her... | |
 | Emily Sarah Holt - 1861 - 368 pàgines
...breathing of the unfortunate Princess. " They watched her breathing through that night, Her breathing long and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. " And when the morn came calm and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 pàgines
...fountain, Thou art gone, and for ever ! Sir W. Scott ccxxxv THE DEA TH BED We watch'd her breathing thro' the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life But when the morn came dim and sad And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed—she had... | |
 | Henry Twells - 1862 - 262 pàgines
...help ua this, and every day, To live more nearly as we pray. KERLE. 99. THE DEATH-BED. "\T7E watch' d her breathing through the night, * ' Her breathing...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. Our... | |
 | Emma Jane Worboise - 1862 - 644 pàgines
...Winchester again; by noon I was on the way to the nearest railway station. CHAPTER XXin. TACANT PLACES. We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing...her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied, We thought her dying when she slept, And... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1862 - 418 pàgines
...unbroken heart's first fragrance unto Heaven ! Hemanx. THE DEATH-LEIi. wateh'd her breathing thro' the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast...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. Our... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1862 - 522 pàgines
...dare say, some of you remember. They are contained in a little poem called '/"/,". Death-bed — ' Wo watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing...soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept hearing to and fro. ' So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved abont, As we had lent her half... | |
 | George Hebert - 1862 - 328 pàgines
...that he might catch every sound which could tell him that the miserable woman still lived. He watched her breathing .... . soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life kept ebbing to and fro. Any moment that painfully-drawn breath might flee, and the soul depart to the presence... | |
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We watch'd her breathing thro' the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in 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 living out. Our very... 
