| 1865 - 496 páginas
...in her breast the wave of life Went heaving to and fro. " Our hopes belied us as we wept, Our tears our hopes belied; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. " Eut when the morn came dim and sad, And soft with airy showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — ahe... | |
| William Wallace Lyle, William W. Lyle - 1865 - 412 páginas
...to her the messenger was one of light, for her countenance was radiant with joy, and so calm that " We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died!" How sweet that death-bed was, only those could know who were privileged to behold it. So near heaven... | |
| James Weber Linn - 1911 - 292 páginas
...boy. 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 secm'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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...HOOD f2. The Death-bed YV/E watch'd her breathing thro' the night, W 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 páginas
...on a 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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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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