 | J. B. Syme - 1852 - 196 páginas
...move the heart to think of God, as the still lips of INFANCY IN DEATH. THE DEATH-BED. BT THOMAS HOOD. WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As on her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved... | |
 | Martha Noyes Williams - 1853 - 292 páginas
...ones pain and sorrow, God " giveth his beloved sleep." 26 THE DEATH BED. THE DEATH BED. THOMAS HOOD. WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing...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... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 páginas
...character, although no man ever composed more powerful serious poetry. How touching is this! WE watch'd her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft...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. Our... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1853 - 646 páginas
...not only in the memory and understanding, but likewise in the affections. THE DEATHBED. " We watch'd her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft...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.... | |
 | David Trevena Coulton - 1853 - 316 páginas
...up-stairs to watch by her sister's head. " She watch'd her sleeping through the night, Her breathing, faint and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro." By ten o'clock the next day a note was placed in the surgeon's hands — " MY DEAR SIR. — Your poor... | |
 | Anna Hanson Dorsey - 1853 - 424 páginas
...asked quickly, as she paused. " Come then and sit by me. I will tell you !" she replied. CHAPTER XX. " We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low; As in her hrenat the wave of life Our fears our hopes helied ; We thought her dying when she slept, Kept heaving... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1854 - 424 páginas
...Oh, God ! to think Man ever Conies too near his Home ! THE DEATH-BED. WE watch' d her breathing thro' the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast...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. Our... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1854 - 730 páginas
...hope, to thee, my God ! my God \ I come ! I come ! THE DEATH-BED. WE watch'd her breathing through tta night, Her breathing soft and low. As in her breast...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 heing out. Our... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1854 - 480 páginas
...think Man ever Comes too near Ms Horn©' THE DEATH-BED. WE watch'd her breathing thro 5 the Bight* Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro, So silently we seemM to speak? So slowly mov'd about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our... | |
 | 1854 - 460 páginas
...could not resist such an appeal, and so I remained with the dear ones, who " watched her breath'ng through the night — Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept h laying to and fro.1' She had long been so extremely weak that she could not raise her head from the... | |
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Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied ; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. " For when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours. 
