 | American Unitarian Association - 1860 - 706 pages
...soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. " Our very hopes belied onr fears, Our fears our hopes belied ; We thought her...dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died." DANGERS OF SPIRITUALISM. THE case I am about to state is one illustrating this truth. Mr. J , residing... | |
 | Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 pages
...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 when... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1861 - 394 pages
...her 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...morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, LINES ON SEEING MY WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN SLEEPING IN THE SAME CHAMBER. AND has the earth lost its so... | |
 | 1861 - 356 pages
...through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes...quiet eyelids closed, she had Another morn than ours. The silver cord in twain is snapped, The golden bowl is broken, The mortal mould in darkness wrapped,... | |
 | Pennsylvania-German Society - 1903 - 680 pages
...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 being out. Our very hope belied our fears ; Our fears our hope belied : We thought her dying when she... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson - 1984 - 1572 pages
...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 being out. Our very hope belied our fears; Our fears our hope belied; We thought her dying when she... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...Young, and so fair! (1. 1—8) BeLS; EBEV; EnRP; FaPoR; FPL; GTBS; GTBS-P; OBEV; WBLP The Death-Bed 3 eye. BeLS; BoTP; EnRP; FaBoBe; FaBV; FaFP; FaPON; FPL; GN; GoTS (1. 1 1-12) EnRP; GTBS; GTBS-P; NOBE; OBD; OBEV; OBNC Faithless Nelly Gray Ben Battle was a soldier... | |
 | Michael Wheeler - 1994 - 314 pages
...she had Another morn than ours!18 The chiasmus at the heart of the poem, and of my present theme - 'We thought her dying when she slept, / And sleeping when she died' - is worked for from the opening line of the poem, where a gentle pressure is first applied to the... | |
 | Alexander Crummell - 1995 - 298 pages
...and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes...dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died.' It is a terrible event, my brethren! The fruit of the distempered brain and the wild will of a reckless... | |
 | Christine Quigley - 1996 - 372 pages
...allows his victims to doze off and to take their leave without pain. Thomas Hood (d. 1845) writes: Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes...dying when she slept. And sleeping when she died. Death is omnipresent, as Percy Shelley (d. 1822) points out in singsong rhyme: "Death is here and death... | |
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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... 
