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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 very... "
Littell's Living Age - Page 402
1854
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Light on Little Graves

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...
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Echoes of Infant Voices

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,...
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The Family friend [ed. by R.K. Philp]., Volume 3

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...
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The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: The literati

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...
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The Poetry and Poets of Britain: From Chaucer to Tennyson ; with ...

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...
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The Broken Bud: Or, Reminiscences of a Bereaved Mother

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...
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The Diosma, a Perennial

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...
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Living to Christ, a mother's memorial of a departed daughter

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...
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Thoughts on the Death of Little Children

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...
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The Mourner's Friend; Or, Sighs of Sympathy for Those who Sorrow

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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