 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...  Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Pàgina 4271846Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Margaret De Courcy, Beatrice De Courcy - 1832
...alas ! — We watched her hreathing throngh the night, Her hreathing soft and low, And in her hreath the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved ahout ; As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes helied our fears —... | |
 | Alexander Whitelaw - 1835
...loud and vehement. THE DEATH-BED. WE watch'd her breathing through the uight, Her breathing soft :md low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro 1 So silentty we seemed to speak — So slowly moved about ! As we had lent her half our powers To... | |
 | 1842
...can be no better described than in the following lines of which I have forgotten the author : — " We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As o'er her heart the waves of life Came heaving to and fro. " And still our hopes belied our fears, Our... | |
 | 1846
...flesh, by Gud's high will, I feel my soul's deep loveTorthee grow stronger. Like one of old, I glnry to have given, Out of my flock, an angel into Heaven....soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept hearing to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half... | |
 | 1845
...Death-bed," by Hood, (which we extract from Longfellow's collection.) be told more simply in prose ? " We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing...her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. 1845.] Verse and Prose. 219 " So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent... | |
 | 1871
...death of his sister Anne, and first appeared (minus a verse) in a Glasgow University Album : — " We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breaat the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. " So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1845 - 167 pàgines
...stole over them, and all suffering seemed to have passed away. And, in that silent chamber, " They watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing...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 ; —... | |
 | 1845
...There is much of fine feeling in the two following : — 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 mov'd about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1845 - 152 pàgines
...house. Mrs. Brandon sat by the bedside of her precious child, who seemed to be insensible. She watched " Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro." Suddenly, the apparently dying girl started, opened her eyes, and faintly articulated, — " I heard... | |
 | 1845
...Death-bed," by Hood, (which we extract from Longfellow's collection.) be told more simply in prose ? Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life " We watched her breathing through the night, Kept heaving to and fro. " So silently we seemed to speak,... | |
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