 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. " '...  English Grammar for the Use of Schools - Página 26por Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1872Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 416 páginas
...we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes...eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours."* "What perfect tranquillity and sense of resignation there is in these purely simple English words and... | |
 | William Wells Brown - 1855 - 338 páginas
...seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. " Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes...eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours." Thomas Hood has another morn ; may that morn have brightened into perfect day ! It is well known that... | |
 | Alice Gray (fict. name.) - 1855 - 204 páginas
...seem'd to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. " Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes...quiet eyelids closed, she had Another morn than ours !" — HOOD. CHAPTER XI. " Rest from their labours, and their works do follow them." — REV. xiv.... | |
 | M. J. P. R. - 1855 - 110 páginas
...seem'd to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her being out. " Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes...eye-lids closed — she had Another morn than ours." So passed away the life of this precious lamb ! Many children attended her funeral, and the tears fell... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 586 páginas
...we seemM to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. "Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes...eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours." As a companion piece we quote two remarkable stanzas, to note, in addition to their calm chaste beauty,... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 404 páginas
...we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes...eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours."* What perfect tranquillity and sense of resignation there is in these purely simple English words and... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 590 páginas
...seem'd to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers, To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes...sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closfd — she had Another morn than ours." As a companion piece, we quote two remarkable stanzas,... | |
 | 1855 - 1226 páginas
...we seem'd to speak, So*slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To oko her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when ahe slept, And sleeping when she died. For when the morn came dim and sad. And chill wilh early showers,... | |
 | 1856 - 606 páginas
...we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears— Our fears our hopes...quiet eyelids closed ; she had Another morn than ours ! THE WIDOW AND HEE SONS ; OR, WHERE ARE THE BOYS 1 " Aye, where are they, indeed ! I fancy some poor... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1856 - 388 páginas
...eke her living out. " Their very hopes belied their fears, Their fears their hopes belied — They thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when...showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had Another moru than ours." CHAPTER XIY. THE TIE BREAKS. CLAYTON remained at Cancma several days after the funeral.... | |
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