 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
 | Martha Noyes Williams - 1853 - 290 pages
...divine, 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. 76 TO A BEREAVED SISTER. 0, though oft depressed and lonely, All my fears are laid aside, If I but... | |
 | 1853 - 402 pages
...divine, Takes the vacant chair beeide 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...Soft rebukes, in blessings ended, Breathing from her Tips of air. 0, though oft depressed and lonely, All my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only... | |
 | Anna U. Russell - 1853 - 580 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...saint-like, Looking downward from the skies. Uttered not, but comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer, Soft rebukes, in blessings ended, Breathing from... | |
 | A. C. Rose - 1852 - 150 pages
...Takes the vacant chair beside me. Lays its gentle hand in mine. •And it site and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars so still...and saint-like. Looking downward from the skies.• If, for a time, we cease to feel the chastening influence of sorrow, and the heart becomes worldly,... | |
 | William Harrison - 1853 - 214 pages
...Rectory, February, 1853. 5 3 TI1E LIGHT OE THE FOEGE. INTKODUCTOKY CHAPTER, " Oh ! though oft depress'd and lonely, All my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only Such as these have lived and died." LONGFELLOW. IN a foot-note appended to his first preface, the Church... | |
 | John Cumming - 1854 - 308 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. " 0, though oft depressed and lonely, All my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only Such as these... | |
 | 1854 - 794 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. 0, though oft depressed and lonely, All my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only Such as these... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 482 pages
...in our hands. It was decided to put it in practice. CHAP. VIII. And she sits and gazes at roe, With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies. LONGFELLOW. i^ooKing aownwara irom me RKICS. .LONGFELLOW. THE next morning I set about the measures... | |
 | Samuel Osgood - 1854 - 346 pages
...ministry seen and a ministry unseen, one seen in gentle charities, the other known by unseen influences. " Uttered not, yet comprehended Is the spirit's voiceless...prayer, Soft rebukes, in blessings ended, Breathing from those lips of air. Jtotnrttli THE HAUNTED HOUSE. HAMAN ought to have been happy. If wealth and honor... | |
 | John Cumming - 1854 - 316 pages
...Lays her gentle hand in mine. "And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like tho stars so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies. " Uttered not, yet comprehended, Is tho spirit's voiceless prayer ; Soft rebukes, in blessings ended, Breathing from her lips of air. "... | |
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