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
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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