 Cradled in thy fair mother's arms, we watched thee day by day, Pale like the second bow of heaven, as gently waste away ; And, sick with dark foreboding fears, we dared not breathe aloud, Sat, hand in hand, in speechless grief, to wait death's coming...  Lyrics of the Heart: With Other Poems ... - Page 59by Alaric Alexander Watts - 1852 - 331 pagesFull view - About this book
 | England - 1825 - 806 pages
...dared not breathe aloud, Sat, hand in hand, in speechless grief, to wait death's coming cloud. • It came at length ;— o'er thy bright blue eye the film was gathering fist, — And an awful shade pass'd o'er thy brow, the deepest and the last;— In thicker gushes strove... | |
 | 1825 - 604 pages
...we dared not breathe aloud, Sat, hand in hand, in speechless grief to wait death's coining cloud. * It came at length ; — o'er thy bright blue eye the...drooping head,-; — A moment more — the final pang — and thou wert of the dead ! ' Thy gentle mother turned away to hide her face from me, And murmured... | |
 | English literature - 1825 - 624 pages
...fears we dared not breathe aluud. Sat, hand in hand, in speechless grief to wait death's coming cloud ' It came at length ;— o'er thy bright blue eye the...awful shade passed o'er thy brow, the deepest and the l«>t . — In thicker gushes strove thy breath, — we raised thy drooping head, — A moment more... | |
 | England - 1825 - 848 pages
...came at length ;—o'er thy bright blue eye the film was gathering fast, — And an awful shade pass'd o'er thy brow, the deepest and the last; — In thicker...raised thy drooping head, — A moment more— the anal pang— and thou wert of the dead ! Thy gentle mother turn'd away to hide her face from me, And... | |
 | Scotland - 1825 - 810 pages
...fears, we dared not breathe aloud, Sat, hand in hand, in speechless grief, to wait death's coming cloud. It came at length ; — o'er thy bright blue eye the film was gathering fast, — And an awful shade pass'd o'er thy brow, the deepest and the last; — In thicker gushes strove thy breath, —we raised... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1829 - 476 pages
...fears, we dared not breathe aloud, Sat, hand in hand, in speechless grief, to wait death's coming cloud. It came at length ; — o'er thy bright blue eye the...thy drooping head; A moment more — the final pang — and thou wert of the dead ! Thy gentle mother turned away to hide her face from me, And murmured... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1829 - 424 pages
...fears, we dared not breathe aloud, Sat, hand in hand, in speechless grief, to wait death's coming cloud. It came at length ; — o'er thy bright blue eye the...thy drooping head; A moment more — the final pang — and thou wert of the dead ! Thy gentle mother turned away to hide her face from me, And murmured... | |
 | Lady, A Lady - Bereavement - 1836 - 338 pages
...fears, we dared not breathe aloud, Sat, hand in hand, in speechless grief, to wait death's coming cloud. It came at length— o'er thy bright blue eye the film was gathering fast ; And an awful shade pass'd o'er thy brow, the deepest and the last ; In thicker gushes strove thy breath — we raised... | |
 | Harp - English poetry - 1836 - 380 pages
...fears, we dared not breathe aloud, Sat band in hand, in speechless grief to wait death's coming cloud. It came at length ;--o'er thy bright blue eye the film was gathering fast, — And an awful shade pass'd o'er thy brow, the deepest and the last ; — In thicker gushes strove thy breath, — we raised... | |
 | Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1839 - 304 pages
...It came at length ; o'er thy bright blue eye the film was gathering fast, And an awful shade pass'd o'er thy brow, the deepest and the last; In thicker...thy drooping head, A moment more — the final pang — and thou wert of the dead." WE left Lady Florence St. John in all the anguish of mind which the... | |
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