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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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Voices from the Silent Land: Or, Leaves of Consolation for the Afflicted

Martha Noyes Williams - 1853 - 290 pages
...HOOD. 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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The Home friend, a weekly miscellany of amusement and instruction, Volume 2

Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1853 - 648 pages
...breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. " So silently she seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had...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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Beautiful poetry, selected by the ed. of The Critic, Volume 1

Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 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 dymg when she slept, For when the morn came dim and sad,...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood, with a Biographical Sketch

Thomas Hood - 1854 - 536 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...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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Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt, Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 336 pages
...— " 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...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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Poems

Thomas Hood - 1854 - 424 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 Poetical Works of Thomas Hood

Thomas Hood - 1854 - 480 pages
...her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro, So silently we seemM to speak? So slowly mov'd about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears s Our fears our hopes belied™ We thought her dying when she slept^ And sleeping when she died. For...
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The Christian's penny magazine, and friend of the people [ed. by J. Campbell ...

Congregational union of England and Wales - 1854 - 724 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 heing out. Our very hopes belied our fears ; Our fears our hopes belied ; We thought her dying when...
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Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to Tennyson

Henry Reed - 1855 - 404 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 when...
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The American Fugitive in Europe: Sketches of Places and People Abroad

William Wells Brown - 1855 - 338 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...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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