 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 Rover - Page 199edited by - 1844Full view - About this book
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Girls - 1845 - 186 pages
...breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. " And when the morn rose dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed ; — she had Another morn than theirs." CHAPTER XXIII. ZEPHINA'S GRIEF. AND there sat Zephina alone watching the dead. Beulah had... | |
 | Seba Smith - Gift books - 1846 - 216 pages
...up the loss ; on no other consideration can a wise man reconcile himself to the necessity of sleep. THE DEATH-BED. BY T. HOOD. WE watch'd her breathing...eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours ! THE LITTLE CHILD'S PHILOSOPHY. BT ELIZABETH OAKES SMITH. " Thou hast hid these things from the wise, and... | |
 | Protestantism - 1846 - 644 pages
...we had lent her half our powers To eke hex being out. Our very hopes belied our fears — Our fears our hopes belied ; We thought her dying when she slept,...eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours ! ANON. " THOU FOOL." A MIK of intelligence, but of a very sceptical turn of mind, had had many conversations... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...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 she slept,...eyelids closed ; — she had Another morn than ours. - GRACE BEFORE MEAT. BY CHARLES LAMB. The custom of saying grace at meals had, probably, its origin... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 620 pages
...As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she...eyelids closed — she had ' Another morn than ours. From Tail'g Magazine. SLEEP. SLEEP! mild and beautiful sleep ! Luller of thought ! Swiftly my soul... | |
 | 1846 - 508 pages
...we had lent her half our powers, To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she...eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours." If it be the poet's office to find sweet words for thought and feeling which others have, who are scarcely... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...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 she slept,...early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed;— she had GRACE BEFORE MEAT. BY CHARLES LAMB. The custom of saying grace at meals had, proba bly, its origin... | |
 | 1846 - 578 pages
...we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. ' Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she...sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids clos'd — she had Another morn thau ours.' 'TO ' I love thee — I love thee ! 'Tis all that I can... | |
 | Thomas Hood - English poetry - 1846 - 300 pages
...As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she...sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids clos'd — she had Another morn than ours. TO MY DAUGHTER. ON HER BIRTHDAY. DEAR Fanny ! nine long... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1846 - 258 pages
...As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she...sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids clos'd — she had Another morn than ours. TO MY DAUGHTER. ON HEE BIRTHDAY. DEAR Fanny ! nine long... | |
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