 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pages
...this fatal place. One on the earth, and one beneath — My brothers — both had ceased to breathe : I took that hand which lay so still, Alas ! my own...when we know That what we love shall ne'er be so. I know not why I could not die, I had no earthly hope — but faith, And that forbade a selfish death.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 pages
...this fatal place. One on the earth, and one beneath—- My brothers — both had ceased to breathe ; I took that hand which lay so still, Alas ! my own...as chill ; I had not strength to stir, or strive, Bat felt that I was still alive— A frantic feeling, when we know That what we 1оте shall ne'er... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...had ceased to breathe : I took that hand which lay so still, I had not strength to stir or strive,But felt that I was still alive, — A frantic feeling,...when we know That what we love shall ne'er be so. I know not why I could not die ; I had no earthly hope, — but faith, And that forbade a selfish death.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1104 pages
...this fatal place. One on the earth, and one beneath — My brothers — both had ceased to breathe ; I took that hand which lay so still, Alas ! my own was full as chill ; I had not strcnglhjfljslit, or strive, But f^Jt tbat у ч?за e*;n aßve — A frantic feeling, when wejtnow... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1855 - 410 pages
...this fatal place.' One on the earth, and one beneath — My brothers — both had ceased to breathe : I took that hand which lay so still, Alas ! my own...when we know That what we love shall ne'er be so. I know not why I could not die, 1 had no earthly hope but faith, And that forbade a selfish death.... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...one beneath, — My brothers, — both had ceased to breathe : I took that hand which lay so still, I had not strength to stir or strive, But felt that...when we know That what we love shall ne'er be so. I know not why I could not die ; I had no earthly hope, — hut faith, And that forbade a selfish death.... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...one beneath, — My brothers, — both had ceased to breathe : I took that hand which lay so still, I had not strength to stir or strive, But felt that I was still alive,— A frantic feeling, when we kcow That what we love shall ne'er be so« I. know not why I could not die ; I had no earthly hope,... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - American poetry - 1857 - 426 pages
...this fatal place. One on the earth, and one beneath — My brothers — both had ceas'd to breathe : I -took that hand which lay so still, Alas ! my own...when we know That what we love shall ne'er be so. I know not why I could not die ; I had no earthly hope — but faith, And that forbade a selfish death.... | |
 | 1858 - 460 pages
...this fatal place. One on the earth, and one beneath, — My brothers, — both had ceased to breathe : I took that hand which lay so still, Alas ! my own...I was still alive, — A frantic feeling, when we kcow That what we love shall ne'er be so. I know not why I could not die ; I had no earthly hope, —... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 642 pages
...this fatal place. One on the earth, and one beneath — My brothers — both had ocas' d to breathe : I took that hand which lay so still, Alas ! my own...as chill ; I had not strength to stir, or strive, Piut felt that I was still alive — A frantic feeling, when we know That what we love shall ne'er... | |
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The last, the sole, the dearest link Between me and the eternal brink, Which bound me to my failing race, Was broken in this fatal place. 
