 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. " '...  Recitations at Whitnash rectory - Page 5by Whitnash rectory - 1866 - 15 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1878 - 876 pages
...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 pages
...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 —... | |
 | Alice Gray (fict. name.) - 1855 - 204 pages
...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...closed, she had Another morn than ours !" — HOOD. CHAPTER XI. " Rest from their labours, and their works do follow them." — REV. xiv. 13. " Being dead,... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 416 pages
...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 belied;...eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours."* "What perfect tranquillity and sense of resignation there is in these purely simple English words and... | |
 | M. J. P. R. - 1855 - 110 pages
...seem'd 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 belied...eye-lids closed — she had Another morn than ours." So passed away the life of this precious lamb ! Many children attended her funeral, and the tears fell... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 424 pages
...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 belied;...eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours."* What perfect tranquillity and sense of resignation there is in these purely simple English words and... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 586 pages
...seemM 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...eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours." As a companion piece we quote two remarkable stanzas, to note, in addition to their calm chaste beauty,... | |
 | William Wells Brown - 1855 - 338 pages
...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 belied...eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours." Thomas Hood has another morn ; may that morn have brightened into perfect day ! It is well known that... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 590 pages
...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...sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closfd — she had Another morn than ours." As a companion piece, we quote two remarkable stanzas,... | |
 | 1855 - 1226 pages
...seem'd to speak, So*slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To oko her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when ahe slept, And sleeping when she died. For when the morn came dim and sad. And chill wilh early showers,... | |
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