 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 seem'd to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very...  The Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 4271846Full view - About this book
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1856 - 878 pages
...name so closely associated with the mirthful we forget that Hood could write such lines as these : "We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing...her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. 11 So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke... | |
 | Cambridge univ, exam. papers - 1856 - 252 pages
...without any cover or disguise. To be translated into LATIN ELEGIACS: WE watch'd her breathing thro' the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast...wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seem'd to speak, So slowly mov'd about, As we had lent her half our power« To eke her living out.... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1856 - 404 pages
...— soft showers fell without, murmuring upon the leaves — within, all was still as death! " They watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of lifo Kept heaving to and fro. " So silently they seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As they had... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait. Loiigfellow. THE DEATHBED. We watch'd her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft...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. Our... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1858 - 292 pages
...perfect harmony." WE WATCHED HER BREATHING IN THE NlGHT. T. HOOD.] [JfnuV by J. BLOCKLBT, We watch'd her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft...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. Our... | |
 | Bishop - 1859 - 224 pages
...county, and Arthur Melville's spirits seemed higher, and his voice more cheerful than usual. CHAPTEE X. " We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing...soft and low As in her breast the wave of life Kept ebbing to and fro." HOOD. THAT first thunder-peal scarcely brought more terror to the children on the... | |
 | 1864 - 206 pages
...apparent to all, but are not so well known as they deserve to be. " We watched her breathing thro' the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the ware of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seem'd to speak. So slowly moved about, As we... | |
 | Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 pages
...writer. But many of his pieces exhibit a depth of earnest feeling, and a pathos not often surpassed. THE DEATHBED. WE watched her breathing through 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 being out... | |
 | American Unitarian Association - 1860 - 706 pages
...her peaceful rest should begin. Fitting that, as gently she had lived, she should as gently die. " We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing...her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. " Our very hopes belied onr fears, Our fears our hopes belied ; We thought her dying when she slept,... | |
 | 1861 - 356 pages
...the eastern skies, She passed through glory's morning-gate, And walked in Paradise. JAMES ALDRIUH. We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing...her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied ; We thought her dying when she slept,... | |
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