| John Livingston Lowes - 1919 - 368 páginas
...anguish, hunger, or the sea! Surprised by joy, impatient as the wind. 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. Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising — Haply I think on thee: and then my state, Like to... | |
| North Dakota. Supreme Court, Hiram A. Libby, Robert Milligan Carothers, Robert Dimon Hoskins, Edgar Whittlesey Camp, John McDowell Cochrane, Ames Francis Wilbur, Joseph Coghlan, Edwin James Taylor - 1922 - 716 páginas
...sickly baby, and through their care she has become "healthy and well." They sat beside her sick bed, and "watched her breathing through the night, her breathing...breast the wave of life kept heaving to and fro." They saw her first smile and received her first caresses. She occupies a place in their home and in... | |
| KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 páginas
...breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death! HOOD — Bridge of Sighs. 6 We watch'd her breathing thro' t V. So. 1. 5 No, no! The energy * * * * Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied; We thought her dying when she... | |
| Sir Henry John Newbolt - 1922 - 1032 páginas
...death-wound, its wound of love for thee! THOMAS HOOD (1798-1845) THE DEATH-BED WE watch'd her breathing thro' the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life So silently we seem'd to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her... | |
| Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - 1922 - 1920 páginas
...first you were my bride. 1845. Helen Sclina, Lady Dmferi*THE DEATH BED 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. 4 So silently we seem'd to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke... | |
| Jay Arthur Myers - 1924 - 242 páginas
...following verses which describe beautifully this type of death from tuberculosis. THE DEATH BED We watch'd her breathing through the night. Her breathing soft...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... | |
| 1925 - 582 páginas
...thou, O Lord, art more than they. 214 The Death Bed BY THOMAS HOOD. 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... | |
| 1926 - 780 páginas
...But we left him alone with his glory. — Charles Wolfe 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... | |
| 1872 - 120 páginas
...beat. We seem worn watchers at the bed of dying Nature, with scarcely life enough left in us to watch " Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Keeps heaving to and fro." The horizon creeps near, and winds its yellow coil close about the ship.... | |
| Michael Wheeler - 1994 - 314 páginas
...kind - that shared by attendants at the bedside, who are interpreters: 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... | |
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