 | M. A. H. - 1849 - 160 pages
...and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes...eyelids closed ; — she had Another morn than ours. SONNET. TO A CHILD. How oft, fair form, when we have bent above Thy slumbering loveliness to catch... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 432 pages
...and fro. So silently we seem'd to speak. So slowly moved about, As wo had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears,...thought her dying, when she slept, And sleeping when sho died. For when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers. Her quiet eyelids closed... | |
 | 1854 - 672 pages
...her leader, who was with her when her spirit almost imperceptibly took its flight. " Sometimes our hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied—-...— when she slept ; And sleeping — when she died. Her end was peace." In compliance with her request, the scholars, after attending morning service on... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1849 - 440 pages
...could say was, "Good night, Mary, and may God bless you." Mary Barton. CHAPTER III. "But \vhen tlie morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers,...eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours." Hoon. IN the middle of that same night a neighbour of the Bartons was roused from her sound, well-earned... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 pages
...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 very hopes belied our fears,...sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids clos'd — she had Another morn than ours. FROM THE COURSE OP TIME. 481 ROBERT POLLOK. (1799—1827.j... | |
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - 1851 - 300 pages
...silently 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...eyelids closed ; — she had Another morn than ours. T. HOOD. THE ALMOND TREE. BEHOLD yon light and blooming sprays That grace Spring's early scene ! That... | |
 | Meta Lander - 1861 - 354 pages
...silently 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...dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. Her quiet eyelids closed, — she had Another morn than ours." THOMAS HOOD. TILL the last, Carrie retained... | |
 | Samuel Irenæus Prime - 1852 - 172 pages
...silently 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...eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours. THOMAS HOOD. a JHimstrriiia MOTHER, has the dove that nestled Lovingly upon thy breast Folded up his... | |
 | Jesus Christ - 1852 - 168 pages
...silently 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...eyelids closed: — she had Another morn than ours." LETTEE XL " The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord." " Affliction... | |
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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 seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very... 
