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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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Foliorum silvula, selections for translation into Latin and Greek verse, by ...

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...
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Poems, chiefly lyrical, compiled and arranged by G.H. Strutt

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...
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The life and times of viscount Palmerston, Volume 2; Volume 87

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...
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A Manual of Elocution and Expression for Public Speakers and Readers ...

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...
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A Selection from the Great English Poets: With an Essay on the Reading of Poetry

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...
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The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century, Volume 3

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...
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Elegies and hymns

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,...
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Brief Literary Criticisms

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...
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The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood

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 !...
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Rosemary and Rue

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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