 To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died.  Elementary Composition - Page 241by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, George Rice Carpenter - 1906 - 274 lehteFull view - About this book
 | 1831 - 702 lehte
...colder than when I saw them at the cottage. THE DEATH-BED. BY T. HOOD. 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 seemed to speak — So slowly moved about ! As we had lent her half our powers To eke... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1832 - 338 lehte
...the light breeze, And the firm foliage of the larger trees. LESSON LI. Close of Life.—ANONYMOUS. WE watched her breathing through the night Her breathing...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... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 lehte
...But now 't is little Joy To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy. THE DEATH- BED. watched her breathing through the night Her breathing...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... | |
 | Alexander Whitelaw - 1835 - 476 lehte
...loud and vehement. THE DEATH-BED. WE watch'd her breathing through the uight, Her breathing soft :md low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro 1 So silentty we seemed to speak — So slowly moved about ! As we had lent her half our powers To... | |
 | Samuel Spring, Gardiner Spring - 1836 - 228 lehte
...her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As o'er her heart the waves of life Came heaving to and fro. * ***** Our very hopes belied...dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. BORNE down by grief and self-reproach, Giafar returned to his home. Life seemed a burden too heavy... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 482 lehte
...with virgin pride ; And so I won my Genevieve, My bright and beauteous bride. THE DEATH-BED.— Anon. We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing...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 life, Our... | |
 | 1842 - 712 lehte
...can be no better described than in the following lines of which I have forgotten the author : — " We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As o'er her heart the waves of life Came heaving to and fro. " And still our hopes belied our fears, Our... | |
 | 1845 - 458 lehte
...Death-bed," by Hood, (which we extract from Longfellow's collection.) be told more simply in prose ? " We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing...her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. 1845.] Verse and Prose. 219 " So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent... | |
 | 1846 - 602 lehte
...stronger. Like one of old, I glnry to have given, Out of my flock, an angel into Heaven. THE DEATH-BED. We 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 about, As we had lent her half... | |
 | 1854 - 696 lehte
...about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out Our very hopes belied our fears, Oar fears our hopes belied — We 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... | |
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