 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
 | William Stebbing - 1913 - 448 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... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1914 - 256 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 half our powers To eke her living out. We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. For when the morn came dim and sad... | |
 | Andrew Macphail - 1916 - 542 pages
...Death-beet 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...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... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - 1916 - 242 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...speak, So slowly moved about As we had lent her half her powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied, We thought... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1918 - 1120 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... | |
 | Charles Henry Woolbert - 1920 - 412 pages
...HOOD 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... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1920 - 802 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...had lent her half our powers To eke her living out I Our very hopes belied our fears Our fears our hopes belied — 10 We thought her dying when she slept,... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - 1922 - 1032 pages
...thro' the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life 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... | |
 | Charles Henry Woolbert, Andrew Thomas Weaver - 1922 - 426 pages
...Note how much the Strength of Voice has to do with the following sentences; speak in a gentle voice: So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about,...had lent her half our powers To eke her living out." Give the following passage a medium degree of Strength: "Roll back the tide of eighteen hundred years.... | |
 | Friedrich W. D. Brie - 1923 - 328 pages
...151 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 — • We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died!... | |
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