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.


The Death-Bed; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). - 20th century

Thomas Hood Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.