Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE DEATH-BED, by THOMAS HOOD


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First Line: We watched her breathing through the night
Last Line: Another morn than ours.
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The


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 hopes belied our fears,
Our fears our hopes belied --
We thought her dying when she slept,
And sleeping when she died.

For when the morn came, dim and sad,
And chill with early showers,
Her quiet eyelids closed -- she had
Another morn than ours.




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