 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...  The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine - Sida 165redigerad av - 1845Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Alexander Whitelaw - 1835 - 476 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 - 258 sidor
...from 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... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1846 - 300 sidor
...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 sidor
...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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