 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 Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: The literati - Pàgina 293per Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell - 1850Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 590 pàgines
...specimen of his serious sweetness and delicate fancy, take the " Death- Bed." " We watch'd her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As...breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silnntly we seem'd to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers, To eke her... | |
 | Alice Gray (fict. name.) - 1855 - 204 pàgines
...Mowbray Elton's, then she closed her eyes, and they thought she slept. " We watch' d her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wane of life Kept heaving to and fro. " So silently we seem'd to speak, So slowly moved about, As we... | |
 | 1856 - 606 pàgines
...and go down into the dark valley with a good hope of heaven. THE DEATH-BED. "We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As...about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears— Our fears our hopes belied ; We thought her dying when... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pàgines
...pleasure, The hills sleep on in their eternity ! Hartley Coleridge. THE DEATH-BED. WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As...about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when... | |
 | 1856 - 880 pàgines
...associated with the mirthful we forget that Hood could write such lines as these: "We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As...silently we seemed to speak. So slowly moved about, Âswehadlentherhalf our powers To eke her living out " Our very hopee belied our fears, Our fears our... | |
 | Cambridge univ, exam. papers - 1856 - 252 pàgines
...without any cover or disguise. To be translated into LATIN ELEGIACS: 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 mov'd about, As we had lent her half our power« To eke her living out.... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1856 - 878 pàgines
...associated with the mirthful we forget that Hood could write such lines as these : "We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As...her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. 11 So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pàgines
...with the other took a shilling out. THOMAS HOOD. 1798-1845. The Death-Bed. We watched her breathing through the night,. Her breathing soft and low, As...her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. • * • • • • • Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied ; We thought... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1856 - 404 pàgines
...without, murmuring upon the leaves — within, all was still as death! " They watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of lifo Kept heaving to and fro. " So silently they seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As they had... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 pàgines
...aspect of death in its gentleness, and of death in its terrible tragedy. " We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low As in...about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears. Our fears our hopes belied : We thought her dying when... | |
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