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" 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 427
1846
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Verselets, Latin and English

John Hoskyns Abrahall - 1863 - 140 pages
...dedit fastus, prseconia virtus : Evexit paucas ad supera alta pudor. The Deathbed. Hood. 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....
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English composition in prose and verse, based on grammatical synthesis ...

Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1863 - 64 pages
...no mere; We wear a face of joy because We have been glad of yore. 34 KEY TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION. 4 We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing...her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. 6. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke...
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English Sacred Poetry of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and ...

Robert Aris Willmott - 1863 - 420 pages
...unbroken heart's first fragrance unto Heaven ! Htmani. THE DEATH-BED. 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 moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our...
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The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language

1863 - 982 pages
...fountain, Thou art gone, and forever ! Sir W. Scott ccxxxv THE DEA TH 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. But when the morn came dim and sad And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood

Thomas Hood - 1864 - 490 pages
...broad leagues dissever Him from yonder foam ; — O, God ! to think man ever Comes too near his home ! THE DEATH-BED. WE watched her breathing through the...her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. 15 So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke...
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Nineteen Beautiful Years; Or, Sketches of a Girl's Life

Frances Elizabeth Willard - 1864 - 268 pages
...SToWF,. OUT upon the shoreless sea the tremulous spirit was drifting, though she knew it not, while " We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low : As in her breast the wave of life Went heaving to and fro." The mystic change which the morning was to bring found no prophecy in these...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...of the seventeenth century. t From the Opera of Clari— the Maid of Milan. THOMAS HOOD. 1798-1845. We watched her breathing through the night Her breathing...her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. The Death-Bed. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied ; We thought her dying when...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volume 1

1865 - 496 pages
...forgot how we were extending the influences of immorality. Good sensation ! was it not here ? — " We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Went heaving to and fro. " Our hopes belied us as we wept, Our tears our hopes belied; We thought her...
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Ephemera

George William Lyttelton Baron Lyttelton - 1865 - 412 pages
...need not attempt to describe them. They are lines on a deathbed:— 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. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied : We thought her dying when she slept,...
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Thoughts on the Death of Little Children

Samuel Irenæus Prime - 1865 - 182 pages
...the eastern skies, She passed through Glory's Morning-gate, And walked in Paradise! JAMES ALDRICH. WE watched her breathing through the night Her breathing soft and low, As in her heart the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about,...
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