 But the beating of my own heart Was all the sound I heard. i Bat beneath the elm-tree ; I watched the long, long shade, And as it grew still longer, I did not feel afraid ; For I...  Dwight's American Magazine - Seite 636herausgegeben von - 1847Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Robert McLean Cumnock - 1898 - 602 Seiten
...the brook flow,— The noisy wheel was still; There was no burr of grasshopper, No chirp of any bird, But the beating of my own heart Was all the sound I heard. I sat beneath the elm tree; I watched the long, long shade, And, as it grew still longer, I did not... | |
 | 1899 - 284 Seiten
...grew still longer, I did not feel afraid ; For I listen'd for a footfall, I listen'd for a word, — But the beating of my own heart Was all the sound I heard. He came not, — no, he came not, — The night came on alone, — The little stars sat, one by one,... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - 1899
...first? Palmerston, or Lord John Kussell, or Gladstone, or Disraeli, or Cobden, or Bright ? For a while the beating of my own heart was all the sound I heard. At last my pulses began to grow calmer ; and I could listen — could distinguish tones. By degrees... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - 1899
...first? Palmerston, or Lord John Russell, or Gladstone, or Disraeli, or Cobden, or Bright ? For a while the beating of my own heart was all the sound I heard. At last my pulses began to grow calmer; and I could listen — could distinguish tones. By degrees... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1901 - 1027 Seiten
...the brook flow, The noisy wheel was still : There was no burr of grasshopper, No chirp of any bird ; But the beating of my own heart Was all the sound I heard. I sat beneath the elm tree, I watch'd the long, long shade, And as it grew still longer I did not feel... | |
 | Frederic Lawrence Knowles - 1901 - 392 Seiten
...the brook flow, The noisy wheel was still ; There was no burr of grasshopper, Nor chirp of any bird, But the beating of my own heart Was all the sound I heard. I sat beneath the elm-tree, I watch'd the long, long shade, And as it grew still longer, I did not... | |
 | Shafto Justin Adair Fitz-Gerald - 1901
...However, Monckton Milnes had faith in his own effort, and though his friends declared that the lines " The beating of my own heart was all the sound I heard" were nonsense, as no man could hear his own heart beat (which, of course, he can, under certain conditions),... | |
 | Thomas William Hodgson Crosland - 1902 - 352 Seiten
...the brook flow, The noisy wheel was still ; There was no burr of grasshopper, Nor chirp of any bird ; But the beating of my own heart Was all the sound I heard. I sat beneath the elm-tree, I watch'd the long, long shade, And as it grew still longer I did not feel... | |
 | 1903 - 1158 Seiten
...I wandered by the mill ; I could not hear the brook flow, The noisy wheel was still. The Brookside. The beating of my own heart Was all the sound I heard. iud OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. 1809- Ay, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1903
...was so agitated I hardly knew what the French for lunch was. And then our conversation dropped : and the beating of my own heart was all the sound I heard. Lunch came. I couldn't eat a bit : I should have choked. Bessy ate plenty, and drank a glass of beer.... | |
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