 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
 | 1846 - 610 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...For when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with e'irly »dowers, H«r quiet eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours. MISCELLANEOUS. PARAGRAPHS... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1846 - 292 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 slept, And sleeping when she died. u2 For when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids clos'd—she... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - Life - 1847 - 400 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. HOOD. MEN who have derided the strictness of a Christian's general habits, and would not attend to... | |
 | John Dowling - Missionaries - 1847 - 322 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. JUDSON'S DEPARTURE FROM ST. HELENA. REV. 9. DKTOEN FHELFS. " I was obliged to hasten on board ship,... | |
 | American literature - 1847 - 440 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 slept,...sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids clos'd — she had Another morn than ours. Have they not met ere this, those two so loving and so lovely... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1847 - 256 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 HEB BIRTHDAY. DEAR Fanny ! nine... | |
 | Bereavement - 1848 - 154 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. THE INFANT'S GRAVE. "For we sorrow not as those who are without hope." I MARKED where the lonely mourner... | |
 | Ann Jane - 1855 - 1198 pages
...powers To eke her living out. 116 THE WIDOW AND HER SONS. Our very hopes belied our fears — Our fears our hopes belied ; We thought her dying when she slept,...quiet eyelids closed ; she had Another morn than ours! H. THE WIDOW AND HER SONS ; OR, WHERE ARE THE BOYS? I "AYE, where are they, indeed!" I fancy some poor... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1848 - 340 pages
...say was, " Good night, Mary, and may God bless you." CHAPTER III. But when the morn came dim and Bad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed— she had Another morn than ours ! HOOD. IN the middle of that same night a neighbour of the Bartons was roused from her sound, well-earned... | |
 | M. A. H. - Children in literature - 1849 - 160 pages
...So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers 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. SONNET. TO A CHILD. How oft, fair form, when we have bent above Thy slumbering loveliness to catch... | |
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