 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...  The Oxford and Cambridge review - Page 2501846Full view - About this book
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...watch'd her breathing thro' the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life But when the morn came dim and sad And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed—she had Another morn than ours. T. Hood ROSABELLE No haughty feat of arms I tell ; Soft is... | |
 | Great Britain - 1861 - 270 pages
...seemed to speak So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers, To cko her living out. Oar very hopes belied our fears ; Our fears our hopes belied : We thought her dying when sho slept, And sleeping when she died. For when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers,... | |
 | John Williamson Palmer - Folk songs - 1861 - 540 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 living out. 175 AULD ROBIN GRAY. Our veiy hopes belied our fear?, Our fears our hopes belied ; We thought her dying... | |
 | English literature - 1861 - 522 pages
...left us. And the quietness of the " going out " was so intense, that we did not speak nor weep ! — " We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died !" I pass over another year. Nearly four years had passed since " our boy " had left us ; and we were... | |
 | William Ralph Inge - Christianity - 1926 - 384 pages
...late," knew something of the world. Many schoolmasters have laughed over the ingenious rendering of "We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died." "Dormiens virgo moriens videtur, Et vice versa," though here the schoolmaster was in fault for setting... | |
 | Charles Henry Woolbert - Oratory - 1927 - 560 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...sad And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed—she had Another morn than ours. THE PILLAR OF THE CLOUD JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Lead, Kindly Light,... | |
 | Charles Henry Woolbert - Oratory - 1927 - 560 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...dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. 277 For v. hen the morn came dim and sad And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed —... | |
 | George Rylands - Diction - 1928 - 268 pages
...As much Beauty as could die: Which in life did harbour give To more Virtue than doth live. JONSON. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes...dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. HOOD. 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. TENNYSON. Leave such to trifle... | |
 | Pennsylvania-German Society - Church music - 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 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 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... | |
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