 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1832 - 338 pages
...Life.—ANONYMOUS. 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...dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. For ulini the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed—she had Another... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...boy. THE DEATH- BED. 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...half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belled our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping... | |
 | Margaret De Courcy, Beatrice De Courcy - 1832 - 500 pages
...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 —... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1835 - 328 pages
...ANONYMOUS. / ' *" 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...living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our'hopes belied ; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. For when the morn... | |
 | Samuel Spring, Gardiner Spring - 1836 - 228 pages
...night, Her breathing soft and low, As o'er her heart the waves of life Came heaving to and fro. * ***** Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes...dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. BORNE down by grief and self-reproach, Giafar returned to his home. Life seemed a burden too heavy... | |
 | 742 pages
...just as he did in that long sleep." I thought of Hood's fine lines, here only too applicable — " We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died." I took her quietly by the arm : " Come, dearest, lie down and rest." She resisted me with a look of... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 482 pages
...DEATH-BED.— Anon. 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....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 pages
...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 fears our hopes belied...her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died !" A few words will conclude all that remains to be told. Edward never came again into contact with... | |
 | Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...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...her living out! Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fear our hopes belied— We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died ; For when... | |
 | 1854 - 696 pages
...Deathbed— We watch'd her breathing thro' the night, Her breathing soft and low, Ai in her breast the WWM of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed...eke her living out Our very hopes belied our fears, Oar fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. For... | |
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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... 
