 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. Our very...  The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe - Seite 274von Edgar Allan Poe - 1857Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1831 - 702 Seiten
...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...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 belied — We thought... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1832 - 338 Seiten
...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...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 belied ; We thought... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 Seiten
...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...So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belled our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought... | |
 | Margaret De Courcy, Beatrice De Courcy - 1832 - 500 Seiten
...alas ! — We watched her hreathing throngh the night, Her hreathing soft and low, And in her hreath the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved ahout ; As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes helied our fears —... | |
 | Alexander Whitelaw - 1835 - 476 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 482 Seiten
...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...slowly moved about — As we had lent her half our life, Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears, our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she... | |
 | 1842 - 712 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1846 - 608 Seiten
...DEATH-BED. XT THE LATE THOMAS HOOD. WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and Tow, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to...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 belied — We thought... | |
 | Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 Seiten
...BY T. HOOD. WE watch'd her breathing thro' the night, Her breathings soft and low, As in her breath the wave of life, Kept heaving to and fro ! So silently...So slowly moved about ! As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out! Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fear our hopes belied— We thought... | |
 | 1845 - 458 Seiten
...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... | |
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