“We watched her breathing through the night,Her breathing soft and low,As in her breast the wave of lifeKept heaving to and fro.” Thomas Hood The Death-Bed The Death-Bed; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). 20th century
“Our very hopes belied our fears,Our fears our hopes belied;We thought her dying when she slept,And sleeping when she died.” Thomas Hood The Death-Bed The Death-Bed; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). 20th century