 | Frances Elizabeth Willard - 1864 - 268 pages
...SToWF,. OUT upon the shoreless sea the tremulous spirit was drifting, though she knew it not, while " We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low : As in her breast the wave of life Went heaving to and fro." The mystic change which the morning was to bring found no prophecy in these... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...of the seventeenth century. t From the Opera of Clari— the Maid of Milan. THOMAS HOOD. 1798-1845. We watched her breathing through the night Her breathing...her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. The Death-Bed. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied ; We thought her dying when... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 616 pages
...breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. 4 So silently we seem'd to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. 8 Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she slept,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1908 - 466 pages
...once again we give publicity to the collation of poems in question. Mr. Hood's lines run thus: — We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing...her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. 14 So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1908 - 1098 pages
...sheaf adown and come, Share my harvest and my home. The Death-be J YW^E watch'd her breathing thro" die 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 moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our... | |
 | 1908 - 464 pages
...fountain, Thou art gone; and for ever! Sir W. Scott CCLXXIX THE DEATH BED 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. 5 So silently we seem'd to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke... | |
 | 1908 - 376 pages
...the fountain, Thou art gone, and for ever ! SIR W. SCOTT THE DEATH BED 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. But when the morn came dim and sad And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had... | |
 | Samuel Swayze Seward - 1909 - 542 pages
...rny bosom's core Shall live my Highland Mary. R. Burns. 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 moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our... | |
 | 1910 - 542 pages
...behaviour, And leaving, with meekness. Her sins to her Saviour. THE DEATH BED 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. But when the morn came dim and sad And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - 1910 - 778 pages
...the ghosts to woo; Thus are all dreams made true, Ever to last! THOMAS HOOD (1798-1845) THE DEATH-BED th forty cent*. 8 Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she slept,... | |
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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... 
