...THOMAS HOOD We watched 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...dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. 277 For v. hen the morn came dim and sad And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed —...

...As much Beauty as could die: Which in life did harbour give To more Virtue than doth live. JONSON. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes...dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. HOOD. 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. TENNYSON. Leave such to trifle...

...DEATH-BED. . 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...about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her being out. Our very hope belied our fears ; Our fears our hope belied : We thought her dying when she...

...DEATH-BED We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the case of the critical reader it is a pleasure which may be purchased too dearly. A good talc being out. Our very hope belied our fears; Our fears our hope belied; We thought her dying when she...

...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...

...interpreters: 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...

..."White House." 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...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,...

...allows his victims to doze off and to take their leave without pain. Thomas Hood (d. 1845) writes: Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes...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...

...hair and frantically grappled with the unyielding walls of the narrow prison? VI I THE SIGNS OF DEATH Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes...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...