 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...  The Rover - 199 페이지 편집 - 1844전체보기 - 도서 정보
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 페이지
...Young, and so fair! (1. 1—8) BeLS; EBEV; EnRP; FaPoR; FPL; GTBS; GTBS-P; OBEV; WBLP The Death-Bed 3 eye. BeLS; BoTP; EnRP; FaBoBe; FaBV; FaFP; FaPON; FPL; GN; GoTS (1. 1 1-12) EnRP; GTBS; GTBS-P; NOBE; OBD; OBEV; OBNC Faithless Nelly Gray Ben Battle was a soldier... | |
 | Michael Wheeler - 1994 - 314 페이지
...she had Another morn than ours!18 The chiasmus at the heart of the poem, and of my present theme - 'We thought her dying when she slept, / And sleeping when she died' - is worked for from the opening line of the poem, where a gentle pressure is first applied to the... | |
 | Alexander Crummell - 1995 - 298 페이지
...So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died.' It is a terrible event, my brethren! The fruit of the distempered brain and the wild will of a reckless... | |
 | Christine Quigley - 1996 - 372 페이지
...their leave without pain. Thomas Hood (d. 1845) writes: Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied— We thought her dying when she slept. And sleeping when she died. Death is omnipresent, as Percy Shelley (d. 1822) points out in singsong rhyme: "Death is here and death... | |
 | Jan Bondeson - 2002 - 324 페이지
...unyielding walls of the narrow prison? VI I THE SIGNS OF DEATH Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. —Thomas Hood, The Death-bed The acceptance of putrefaction as the sole reliable sign of death, as... | |
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