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" 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 very... "
The Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 427
1846
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The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music, and Romance

Margaret De Courcy, Beatrice De Courcy - 1832 - 500 pages
...alas ! — We watched her hreathing throngh the night, Her hreathing soft and low, And in her hreath the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved ahout ; As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes helied our fears —...
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The Republic of Letters: A Selection, in Poetry and Prose, from ..., Volume 4

Alexander Whitelaw - 1835 - 476 pages
...loud and vehement. THE DEATH-BED. WE watch'd her breathing through the uight, Her breathing soft :md low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro 1 So silentty we seemed to speak — So slowly moved about ! As we had lent her half our powers To...
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The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume 11

1842 - 712 pages
...can be no better described than in the following lines of which I have forgotten the author : — " We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As o'er her heart the waves of life Came heaving to and fro. " And still our hopes belied our fears, Our...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 9

1846 - 602 pages
...flesh, by Gud's high will, I feel my soul's deep loveTorthee grow stronger. Like one of old, I glnry to have given, Out of my flock, an angel into Heaven....soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept hearing to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half...
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The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, Volume 38

1845 - 458 pages
...Death-bed," by Hood, (which we extract from Longfellow's collection.) be told more simply in prose ? " We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing...her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. 1845.] Verse and Prose. 219 " So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 109

1871 - 878 pages
...death of his sister Anne, and first appeared (minus a verse) in a Glasgow University Album : — " We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breaat the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. " So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved...
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I Will be a Lady: A Book for Girls

Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1845 - 186 pages
...stole over them, and all suffering seemed to have passed away. And, in that silent chamber, " They watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing...her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. " And when the morn rose dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed ; —...
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Wade's London Review, Volumes 1-3

1845 - 916 pages
...There is much of fine feeling in the two following : — THE DEATH BED. We watch'd her breathing thro' the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast...wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seem'd to speak, So slowly mov'd about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our...
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I Will be a Gentleman: A Book for Boys

Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1845 - 170 pages
...house. Mrs. Brandon sat by the bedside of her precious child, who seemed to be insensible. She watched " Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro." Suddenly, the apparently dying girl started, opened her eyes, and faintly articulated, — " I heard...
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The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, Volume 38

1845 - 452 pages
...Death-bed," by Hood, (which we extract from Longfellow's collection.) be told more simply in prose ? Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life " We watched her breathing through the night, Kept heaving to and fro. " So silently we seemed to speak,...
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