 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...  The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: The literati - Page 293by Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell - 1850Full view - About this book
 | 1831 - 702 pages
...colder than when I saw them at the cottage. THE DEATH-BED. BY T. HOOD. WE watch'd her breathing thro' the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast...about ! As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out ! Our very hopes belied our fears Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...Joy To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy. THE DEATH- BED. watched her breathing through the night Her breathing soft and low, As In...about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belled our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Readers - 1832 - 338 pages
...the firm foliage of the larger trees. LESSON LI. Close of Life.—ANONYMOUS. WE watched her breathing through the night Her breathing soft and low, As in...about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied ; We thought her dying when... | |
 | Margaret De Courcy, Beatrice De Courcy - Fashion - 1832 - 500 pages
...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 - Literature - 1835 - 476 pages
...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... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 pages
...I won my Genevieve, My bright and beauteous bride. THE DEATH-BED.— Anon. We watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As...slowly moved about — As we had lent her half our life, Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears, our hopes belied — We thought her dying when she... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 608 pages
...DEATH-BED. XT THE LATE THOMAS HOOD. WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and Tow, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to...about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when... | |
 | Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...BY T. HOOD. WE watch'd her breathing thro' the night, Her breathings soft and low, As in her breath the wave of life, Kept heaving to and fro ! So silently...about ! As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out! Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fear our hopes belied— We thought her dying when... | |
 | American periodicals - 1871 - 878 pages
...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...about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out " Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when... | |
 | American periodicals - 1854 - 696 pages
...Deathbed— We watch'd her breathing thro' the night, Her breathing soft and low, Ai in her breast the WWM of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed...about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out Our very hopes belied our fears, Oar fears our hopes belied — We thought her dying when... | |
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