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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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Arundines cami: Sive, Musarum Cantabrigiensium lusus canori

Henry Drury - 1865 - 424 pages
...¿тгукритеу a /cav Troir¡<7ai: КаТстар- аХХ ctpyetv то К. С. J. 72 Doll) ÎJcD. WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As through her breast the tide of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly...
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Songs: Sacred and Devotional

Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1866 - 496 pages
...be blended With the voice of the spoiler by me ! THOMAS HOOD.— Music by John Blockley. 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...
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Sanders' Union Fourth Reader: Embracing a Full Exposition of the Principles ...

Charles Walton Sanders - 1866 - 412 pages
...vocality, and are used to express fear, .caution, secrecy, solemnity, and all tender emotions. EXAMPLES. 1. We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing...her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. HOOD. 2. Softly, peacefully, Lay her to rest ; Place the turf lightly, On her young breast. n. E. GOODMAN....
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Passages from the Auto-biography of a "Man of Kent" [i.e. Robert Cowtan]

Robert Cowtan - 1866 - 430 pages
...early Death. 179 " We watch'd him breathing thro' the night, His breathing soft and low ; As in his 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 him half our power To eke his living out. Our...
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Gems of English poetry from Chaucer to the present times, selected and ...

Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 pages
...awhile : Cricket of my hearth, adieu ! THOMAS HOOD. Born, 1798; Died, 1845. THE DEATH-BED. 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...
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Gems of English poetry from Chaucer to the present times, selected and ...

Mary Anne Marzials - 1867 - 332 pages
...awhile : Cricket of my hearth, adieu ! THOMAS HOOD. Born, 1798; Died, 1845. THE DEATH-BED. 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...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood: With a Memoir, Volume 1

Thomas Hood - 1867 - 464 pages
...Let broad leagues dissever Him from yonder foam ; — 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 hah0 our powers To eke her living out....
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The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language

Francis Turner Palgrave - 1867 - 360 pages
...fountain, Thou art gone; and for ever!—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...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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Sanders' Rhetorical, Or, Union Sixth Reader: Embracing a Full Exposition of ...

Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - 610 pages
...vocality, and are used to express fear, caution, secrecy, solemnity, and all tender emotions. EXAMPLES. I We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast tho wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. HOOD. 2. Softly, peacefully, Lay her to rest; Place the turf...
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Extracts from English Literature

John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...answer ? KOWE. DEATH-BED. WE watch'd her breathing thro' the night, Her breathing soft and low, And in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. But when the mom came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed — she had...
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