 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1854 - 730 páginas
...hope, to thee, my God ! my God \ I come ! I come ! THE DEATH-BED. WE watch'd her breathing through tta 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 heing out. Our... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1854 - 480 páginas
...think Man ever Comes too near Ms Horn©' THE DEATH-BED. WE watch'd her breathing thro 5 the Bight* Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro, So silently we seemM to speak? So slowly mov'd about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our... | |
 | 1854 - 460 páginas
...could not resist such an appeal, and so I remained with the dear ones, who " watched her breath'ng through the night — Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept h laying to and fro.1' She had long been so extremely weak that she could not raise her head from the... | |
 | M. J. P. R. - 1855 - 110 páginas
...when the angel came and gently bore away her infant spirit to the presence of her loved Redeemer. " We watched her breathing through the night, ,Her breathing,...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 being out. "... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 586 páginas
...poems. As a specimen of hie serious sweetness and delicate fancy, take the "Death-Bed." " We watch'd her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft...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... | |
 | 1855 - 1226 páginas
...poems. As n specimen of his serious sweetness and delicate fancy, take 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 oko her living out. Our... | |
 | Alice Gray (fict. name.) - 1855 - 204 páginas
...and laid it in 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... | |
 | 1855 - 852 páginas
...nature, joined to describe the feelings and illusions of the watcher by the death-couch of a loved one: "We watched her breathing through the night — Her breathing soft and low — A* tn her hrewt the wave of life Kept henvin^ to nnil fro. Oar very hope* lielled our IVnrM, Our... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 páginas
...put A penny in the urn of poverty, And with the other took a shilling out. THOMAS HOOD. 1798-1845. The Death-Bed. We watched her breathing through the...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 - 388 páginas
...— soft showers fell without, murmuring upon the leaves — within, all was still as death ! ** They watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing...wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. " So silently they seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, . v As they had lent her half their powers To eke her... | |
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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... 
