 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pagina’s
...6 2 THE DEATH-BED 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...dying when she slept, and sleeping when she died. But when the morn came dim and sad and chill with early showers, her quiet eyelids closed — she had... | |
 | Whitnash rectory - 1866 - 478 pagina’s
...$едо r tut e. 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...had lent her half our powers, To eke her living out. ur very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she slept... | |
 | James Weber Linn - 1911 - 286 pagina’s
...Hood. THE DEATH BED WE watch'd her breathing thro' the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seem'd to speak, 5 So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out.... | |
 | A. E. Sharp - 1911 - 264 pagina’s
...the body ; life, the soul. 9. Whom the gods love die young. 10. If even I were as in my boyhood. 11. We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. 12. Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell. 13. It... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1912 - 508 pagina’s
...breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seem'd to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her...eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, 5 Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. For... | |
 | Joseph Berg Esenwein, Mary Eleanor Roberts - 1913 - 336 pagina’s
...born to die. — HALLECK, Marco Bozzaris. CHIASM : A reversal of poetic order in successive lines. Our very hopes belied our fears, •> Our fears our...dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. OXYMORON: Joining words which are contradictory when taken literally. Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1913 - 1048 pagina’s
...f2. The "Death-bed WE watch'd her breathing thro' the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the 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... | |
 | William Stebbing - 1913 - 448 pagina’s
...common death-bed l We watch' d her breathing thro' the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the 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... | |
 | Gilbert Keith Chesterton - 1913 - 292 pagina’s
...like the shadow of a sword. " Sewing at once with a double thread a shroud as well as a shirt" — "We thought her dying when she slept, and sleeping when she died" — "Oh God, that bread should be so dear and flesh and blood so cheap" — none can fail to note in... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1914 - 256 pagina’s
...breathing soft and low, As in her breast the 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. We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. For when the morn came dim and sad... | |
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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... 
