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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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English Sacred Poetry of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and ...

Robert Aris Willmott - 1863 - 420 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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Verselets, Latin and English

John Hoskyns Abrahall - 1863 - 140 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....
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English composition in prose and verse, based on grammatical synthesis ...

Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1863 - 64 pages
...the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. 6. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about,...had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. 6. So shall the fairest face appear When youth and years are flown ; Such is the robe that kings must...
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The Works of Thomas Hood, Volume 1

Thomas Hood - 1864 - 522 pages
...'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...we had lent her half our powers To eke her living oat. ' Oar very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood

Thomas Hood - 1864 - 490 pages
...the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. 15 So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about,...eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our tears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. For...
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Arundines cami: Sive, Musarum Cantabrigiensium lusus canori

Henry Drury - 1865 - 424 pages
...watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As through her breast the tide of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed...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...
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The Child Taught of God; Or, Brief Memorials of A. M. G. B. [With a Portrait.]

A. M. G. B. - 1865 - 140 pages
..." 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...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. "...
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Thoughts on the Death of Little Children

Samuel Irenæus Prime - 1865 - 182 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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Spring-time with the poets, poetry selected and arranged by F. Martin

Frances Martin - 1866 - 506 pages
...DEATH-BED. E watch'd 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...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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Festival of Song: A Series of Evenings with the Poets

Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 pages
...— 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...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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