 | Thomas Hood - 1854 - 480 pages
...think Man ever Comes too near Ms Horn©' THE DEATH-BED. WE watch'd her breathing thro 5 the Bight* Her breathing soft and low, As in 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... | |
 | 1854 - 460 pages
...not resist such an appeal, and so I remained with the dear ones, who " watched her breath'ng through the night — Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept h laying to and fro.1' She had long been so extremely weak that she could not raise her head from the... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 586 pages
...his serious sweetness and delicate fancy, take the "Death-Bed." " We watch'd her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast...of life Kept heaving to and fro. " So silently we seemM to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. "Our... | |
 | 1855 - 1226 pages
...his serious sweetness and delicate fancy, take the "Death Bed." " We watch'd her breathing through 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 oko her living out. Our... | |
 | M. J. P. R. - 1855 - 110 pages
...bore away her infant spirit to the presence of her loved Redeemer. " We watched her breathing through the night, ,Her breathing, soft and low, As in her...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. "... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 590 pages
...his serious sweetness and delicate fancy, take the " Death- Bed." " We watch'd her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silnntly we seem'd to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers, To eke her... | |
 | Alice Gray (fict. name.) - 1855 - 204 pages
...Elton's, then she closed her eyes, and they thought she slept. " We watch' d her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wane of life Kept heaving to and fro. " So silently we seem'd to speak, So slowly moved about, As we... | |
 | Cambridge univ, exam. papers - 1856 - 252 pages
...directly expressed, without any cover or disguise. To be translated into LATIN ELEGIACS: WE watch'd her breathing thro' the night, Her breathing soft...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.... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1856 - 878 pages
...the mirthful we forget that Hood could write such lines as these : "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. 11 So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pages
...other took a shilling out. THOMAS HOOD. 1798-1845. The Death-Bed. 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. • * • • • • • Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied ; We thought... | |
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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... 
