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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... "
Poetry for school and home, from the best authors, ed. by T. Shorter - Page 167
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I Will be a Lady: A Book for Girls

Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1845 - 186 pages
...breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. " And when the morn rose dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids closed ; — she had Another morn than theirs." CHAPTER XXIII. ZEPHINA'S GRIEF. AND there sat Zephina alone watching the dead. Beulah had...
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The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, Volume 38

1845 - 452 pages
...breathing through the night, 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 being out. " Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied ; We thought her dying when...
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The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 25

1845 - 888 pages
...Our fears our hopes belied; 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 being out. We thought her dying when she slept. And sleeping when she died. For when the morn came...
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Poems, Volume 1

Thomas Hood - 1846 - 258 pages
...Him from yonder foam ; — Oh, God ! to think Man ever Comes too near his Home ! THE DEATH-BED. WE watch'd her breathing thro' the night, Her breathing...sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids clos'd — she had Another morn than ours. TO MY DAUGHTER. ON HEE BIRTHDAY. DEAR Fanny ! nine long...
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The Oxford and Cambridge review, Volume 2

1846 - 578 pages
...unfurl' d, That I alone at this still hour, In patient love outwatch the world.' ' THE DEATH-BED 'We watch'd her breathing thro' the night, Her breathing...sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids clos'd — she had Another morn thau ours.' 'TO ' I love thee — I love thee ! 'Tis all that I can...
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Poems, Volume 2

Thomas Hood - 1846 - 300 pages
...yonder foam ; — Oh, God ! to think Man ever Comes too near his Home ! THE DEATH-BED. WE watch 'd her breathing thro' the night, Her breathing soft...sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids clos'd — she had Another morn than ours. TO MY DAUGHTER. ON HER BIRTHDAY. DEAR Fanny ! nine long...
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Poems, Volume 1

Thomas Hood - 1846 - 292 pages
...dissever Him from yonder foam ;— Oh, God ! to think Man ever Comes too near his Home ! THE DEATH-BED. WE watch'd her breathing thro' the night, Her breathing...dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died. u2 For when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with early showers, Her quiet eyelids clos'd—she...
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The Biblical review, and Congregational magazine [formerly The ..., Volume 2

1846 - 508 pages
...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...eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours." If it be the poet's office to find sweet words for thought and feeling which others have, who are scarcely...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 8

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 620 pages
...hur 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...eyelids closed — she had ' Another morn than ours. From Tail'g Magazine. SLEEP. SLEEP! mild and beautiful sleep ! Luller of thought ! Swiftly my soul...
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The Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 9

1846 - 610 pages
...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...For when the morn came dim and sad, And chill with e'irly »dowers, H«r quiet eyelids closed — she had Another morn than ours. MISCELLANEOUS. PARAGRAPHS...
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