 | William Wells Brown - 1855 - 338 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 424 Seiten
...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...eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours."* What perfect tranquillity and sense of resignation there is in these purely simple English words and... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 586 Seiten
...her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. " So silently we seemM to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her...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 - 416 Seiten
...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...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 Seiten
...her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silnntly we seem'd to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers, To eke...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 Seiten
...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 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,... | |
 | M. J. P. R. - 1855 - 110 Seiten
...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 being out. " Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying,... | |
 | 1856 - 606 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 Seiten
...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...dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. Hood. (1) Wisely Ming— to dote, connected with the Dutch dutten, and the French, doter, radoter,... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1856 - 388 Seiten
...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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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... 
