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... Littell's Living Age - Page 4021854Full view - About this book
| 1848 - 154 pages
...DEATH-BED. WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her heart the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed...about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her being out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied ; We thought her dying when... | |
| M. A. H. - 1849 - 160 pages
...sea." WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As on her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed...slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied ; We thought her dying when she slept,... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 432 pages
...wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seem'd to speak. So slowly moved about, As wo 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 sho died. For... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell - 1850 - 642 pages
...We watched her breatlu'ng 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...about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her being out Our very hope belied our fears ; Our fears our hope belied ; We thought her dying when she... | |
| Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 pages
...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...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... | |
| Meta Lander - 1861 - 354 pages
..." We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her heart the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed...about, As we had lent her half our powers, To eke her being out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears, our hopes belied ; We thought her dying when... | |
| Hannah Flagg Gould - 1851 - 300 pages
...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...about, As we had lent her half our powers, To eke her being out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied ; We thought her dying when... | |
| Jesus Christ - 1852 - 168 pages
...feelings." " We watched 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 seemed...about, As we had lent her half our powers, To eke her being out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied; We thought her dying when she... | |
| Samuel Irenæus Prime - 1852 - 168 pages
...ALDRICH. WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her heart the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed...about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her being out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied ; We thought her dying when... | |
| J. B. Syme - 1852 - 196 pages
...HOOD. WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As on her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed...about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her being out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied ; We thought her dying when... | |
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