 And with them the Being Beauteous Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in...  Poems - Page 16by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853Full view - About this book
 | 1839 - 226 pages
...vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. VII,. And she sits and gazes at me, With her deep and tender eyes, Like the stars so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies. IX. Uttered not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer, Soft rebukes, in blessings ended,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1839 - 174 pages
...Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me, With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still...All my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only Such as these have lived and died ! FLOWERS. SPAKE full well, in language quaint and olden, One who... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1839 - 614 pages
...Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me, With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars so still...downward from the skies. Uttered not, yet comprehended, It the spirit's voiceless prayer, Soft rebukes, in blessings ended, Breathing from her lips of air.... | |
 | 1839 - 584 pages
...Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me, With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars so still and saint-like, Looking downward froin the skies. Uttered not, yet comprehended. Is the spirit's voiceless prayer. Soft rebukes, in... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1840 - 566 pages
...her the ballads of the olden time ; while ' She sat, and gazed upon me, With those deep and lender eyes, Like the stars, so still, and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies." I have again heard her breathe my name, in accents sweeter than the song of the nightingale. Another... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 588 pages
...Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. " And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still...All my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only Such as these have fived and died ! " — pp. 14-16. The poem called " Flowers," is not so much to... | |
 | Edward Payson Weston - 1840 - 226 pages
...Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me, With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still...All my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only Such as these have lived and died ! OH THINK NOT THAT THE DREAM IS PAST! B y JOHN B . L. SOCLE . OH... | |
 | 1840 - 424 pages
...Takes the vacant chair beside me, , Lays her gentle hand in mine. " And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still...All my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only Such as these have lived and died ! " ART. X. — Crania Americana ; or, a Comparative View of the... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 584 pages
...Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. "And she sits and gazes nt me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still...All my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only Such as these have lived and died l " — pp. 14 - 16. The poem called " Flowers," is not so much to... | |
 | 1840 - 424 pages
...Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. " And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still...in blessings ended, Breathing from her lips of air. s " O, though oft depressed and lonely, All my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only Such as... | |
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