| John Hoskyns Abrahall - 1863 - 140 páginas
...dedit fastus, prseconia virtus : Evexit paucas ad supera alta pudor. The Deathbed. Hood. 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.... | |
| Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1863 - 64 páginas
...no mere; We wear a face of joy because We have been glad of yore. 34 KEY TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION. 4 We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing...her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. 6. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott - 1863 - 420 páginas
...unbroken heart's first fragrance unto Heaven ! Htmani. 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... | |
| 1863 - 982 páginas
...fountain, Thou art gone, and forever ! 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 Kept heaving to and fro. But when the morn came dim and sad And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1864 - 490 páginas
...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...her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. 15 So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke... | |
| Frances Elizabeth Willard - 1864 - 268 páginas
...SToWF,. OUT upon the shoreless sea the tremulous spirit was drifting, though she knew it not, while " We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low : As in her breast the wave of life Went heaving to and fro." The mystic change which the morning was to bring found no prophecy in these... | |
| John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 páginas
...of the seventeenth century. t From the Opera of Clari— the Maid of Milan. THOMAS HOOD. 1798-1845. We watched her breathing through the night Her breathing...her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. The Death-Bed. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied ; We thought her dying when... | |
| 1865 - 496 páginas
...forgot how we were extending the influences of immorality. Good sensation ! was it not here ? — " We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Went heaving to and fro. " Our hopes belied us as we wept, Our tears our hopes belied; We thought her... | |
| George William Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton - 1865 - 412 páginas
...need not attempt to describe them. They are lines on a deathbed:— 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. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied : We thought her dying when she slept,... | |
| Samuel Irenæus Prime - 1865 - 182 páginas
...the eastern skies, She passed through Glory's Morning-gate, And walked in Paradise! JAMES ALDRICH. WE watched her breathing through the night Her breathing soft and low, As in her heart the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about,... | |
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