 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. " '...  A history of English literature for junior classes - Page 188by Frederick A. Laing - 1873 - 253 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - English poetry - 1851 - 300 pages
...silently we seemed 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...came, dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed ; — she had Another morn than ours. T. HOOD. THE ALMOND TREE. BEHOLD yon light... | |
 | Meta Lander - 1861 - 354 pages
...silently we seemed 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...dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. Her quiet eyelids closed, — she had Another morn than ours." THOMAS HOOD. TILL the last, Carrie retained... | |
 | Samuel Irenæus Prime - Children - 1852 - 172 pages
...silently we seemed 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...came, dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours. THOMAS HOOD. a JHimstrriiia MOTHER, has the... | |
 | J. B. Syme - Death - 1852 - 196 pages
...silently we seemed 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...came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet ey elids closed ; — she had Another morn than ours. 11 ', 122 THE MOURNER'S FRIEND. A MOTHER'S... | |
 | Jesus Christ - 1852 - 168 pages
...silently we seemed 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...came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed: — she had Another morn than ours." LETTEE XL " The Lord gave, and the Lord... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1853 - 646 pages
...wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. " So silently she seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out....came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had Another morn than оиrч." HOOD. HOME FEIEND; A WEEKLY MISCELLANY... | |
 | Martha Noyes Williams - Suffering - 1853 - 292 pages
...silently we seemed 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...came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed ; — she had Another morn than ours. " We spend our years as a tale that is told.... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...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 living out....fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dymg when she slept, For when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 350 pages
...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....came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours." " Thomas Hood has now another morn than ours... | |
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