 | Margaret De Courcy, Beatrice De Courcy - 1832 - 500 էջ
...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 - 476 էջ
...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... | |
 | 1845 - 458 էջ
...extract from Longfellow's collection.) be told more simply in prose ? " 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. 1845.] Verse and Prose. 219 " So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent... | |
 | 1846 - 602 էջ
...have given, Out of my flock, an angel into Heaven. THE DEATH-BED. We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing 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 - 916 էջ
...to our readers. There is much of fine feeling in the two following : — 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 mov'd about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1845 - 186 էջ
...suffering seemed to have passed away. And, in that silent chamber, " They watched her breathing through the night, Her 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 ; —... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1845 - 170 էջ
...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 - 452 էջ
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1846 - 300 էջ
...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...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... | |
 | 1846 - 578 էջ
...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 soft...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. '... | |
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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... 
