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
| Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...DEATH-BED 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. But when... | |
| George H. STRUTT - 1866 - 260 pages
...CXLV. 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...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... | |
| James Ewing Ritchie - 1866 - 912 pages
...death. " 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. "For when... | |
| Albert Francis Tenney - 1905 - 346 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...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... | |
| Sherwin Cody - 1905 - 628 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... | |
| 1905 - 682 pages
...breathing soft and low, As in her breath 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... | |
| Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - 1905 - 266 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,... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton - 1906 - 446 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. PATHOS... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1906 - 804 pages
...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 ! So silently we seemed...eke her living out ! Our very hopes belied our fears Our fears our hopes belied — 10 We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died !... | |
| 1906 - 528 pages
...WATCHING HE 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 when... | |
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