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. " '... The Mothers' friend, ed. by Ann Jane - Страница 116под редакцията на - 1855Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| Martha Noyes Williams - 1853 - 292 страници
...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 hopes...eyelids closed ; — she had Another morn than ours. " We spend our years as a tale that is told. The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and... | |
| Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1853 - 646 страници
...seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. " Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes...quiet eyelids closed — she had Another morn than оиrч." HOOD. HOME FEIEND; A WEEKLY MISCELLANY OF AMUSEMENT AND INSTRUCTION. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY,... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 страници
...we seem'd to speak, So slowly moved about, 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 dymg when she slept, For when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 350 страници
...seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. " Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes...eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours." " Thomas Hood has now another morn than ours — may that morn have brightened into perfect day ! May... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1854 - 424 страници
...we seem'd to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes...eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours. LIJ\TES ON SEEING MY WIFE AND TWO CHILDBEN SLEEPING IN THE SAME CHAMBEE. AND has the earth lost its... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1854 - 536 страници
...we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes...early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had LINES ON SEEING MY WIFE AXD TWO CHILDREN SLEEPING IN THE SAME CHAMUER. AND has the earth lost its so... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1854 - 480 страници
...about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears s Our fears our hopes belied™ We thought her dying...sleeping when she died. For when the morn came dim and And chill with early showers, TO MY DAUGHTER. ON HER BIRTHDAYo DEAR Fanny ! nine long years ago, While... | |
| 1878 - 876 страници
...of friends whose hopes, in the words of one who rests within these walls, belied their fears : "But when the morn came, dim and sad, And chill with early...eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours." One of the first names to catch the eye is that of John Smeaton, engineer to the London Dock Company.... | |
| Congregational union of England and Wales - 1854 - 730 страници
...we seem'd to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her heing out. Our very hopes belied our fears ; Our fears our hopes...thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she aied. For when the morn came, dim and s*J. And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed —... | |
| Henry Reed - 1855 - 416 страници
...we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes...eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours."* "What perfect tranquillity and sense of resignation there is in these purely simple English words and... | |
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