 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...  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal - Page 1941844Full view - About this book
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more ! And with them the being...heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and... | |
 | Songs - 1856 - 712 pages
...ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore, — Folded their pale hands so meekly, — Spake with us on earth no more ! And with them the Being...heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep, Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and... | |
 | 1899 - 430 pages
...wife, a lady of great loveliness of character, died at Rotterdam in 1835. — The being beauteous That unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. "Excelsior" was written on a late autumn evening in 1841. The poet had just been reading a letter from... | |
 | Thomas Vincent Fosbery - 1857 - 436 pages
...the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more ! And with them the being...heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1857 - 428 pages
...their pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more ! ir, And with them the Being Beanteous, Who unto my youth was given, More than all things...heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and... | |
 | Joseph Beckham Cobb - 1858 - 424 pages
...the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross and suffering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more ! "And with them the Being...heaven. " With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. " And she sits and... | |
 | 1858 - 398 pages
...the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more. And with them the being...saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Conies that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 752 pages
...ones and weakly, Who the cross of snffernig bore, And with them the Being Beanteous, Who unto my yonth was given. More than all things else to love me, And...heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and... | |
 | 1858 - 664 pages
...Who the cross of sufl'ering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly. Spake with us on earth no more I And with them the being beauteous, Who unto my youth was given, More thau all tbings else to love me, And is uow a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep,... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - 1859 - 326 pages
...the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly, Spoke with us on earth no more ! And with them the being...heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and... | |
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