Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. IV. The Nineteenth Century: Wordsworth to Rossetti
Thomas Hood (17991845)The Death-Bed
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Her breathing soft and low,
As in her breast the wave of life
Kept heaving to and fro.
So slowly moved about,
As we had lent her half our powers
To eke her living out.
Our fears our hopes belied—
We thought her dying when she slept,
And sleeping when she died.
And chill with early showers,
Her quiet eyelids closed—she had
Another morn than ours.