 | John Ruskin - 1905 - 680 pages
...almost ashamed of reading what had good sensation in it, but still he would do so. Was it not here?— ' We watched her breathing thro' 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,... | |
 | Joseph Bickersteth Mayor - 1903 - 190 pages
...rhyme in one verse, are without symphony in two verses, and are united by assonance in the following: We watched her breathing thro' the night, Her breathing...her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. be omitted, retaining only the 2nd and 4th, which would then be the only final rhymes. A rarer kind... | |
 | Adam L. Gowans - 1903 - 168 pages
...To live and die for thee. Gnsarfs Text. THOMAS HOOD. 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 eke her living out. Our... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1903 - 888 pages
...the Rich ! — She sang this ' Song of the Shirt ! ' The Deathbed. We watch'd her breathing through er-waiting seem'd to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our... | |
 | John N. Crawford - 1903 - 432 pages
...this form. Who can read the following without sympathy and tears ? 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 eke her living out. Our... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1903 - 218 pages
...plead with the fortunate for the unhappy and the poor — THACKERAY. 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 her dying... | |
 | Arthur John Lockhart - 1903 - 396 pages
...woman! What need to quote it, and yet what may be quoted more fitly! "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. •Felicia Heinans. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half... | |
 | Elia Wilkinson Peattie - 1903 - 252 pages
...Song of the Shirt" and '"*««e Bridge of Sighs." He died May 3, 1S45. We watched her sleeping through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept surging to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1904 - 416 pages
...the garment thou seest Him by. THOMAS HOOD. 1798-1845 THE DEATHBED We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1905 - 628 pages
...mine they ne'er reply, And yet I cease not to behold THOMAS HOOD (1798-1845) THE DEATH BED 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 moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our... | |
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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... 
