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... The Guardian - Page 3241853Full view - About this book
| 1842 - 512 pages
...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 gazes at me, "Uttered not, yet comprehended Was the spirit's voiceless prayer. Soft rebukes, in blessings enclecl,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 174 pages
...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...Soft rebukes, in blessings ended, Breathing from her lips of air. O, though oft depressed and lonely, All my fears are laid aside, If I hut remember only... | |
| 1843 - 678 pages
...more. " With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes the messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. " And she sits and...and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies." The lamented Otway Curry — the few fragments of whose dreamy and mysterious poetry have given his... | |
| 1843 - 708 pages
...more. " With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes the messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. " And she sits and...tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Look ing down ward from the skies." The lamented Otway Curry — the few fragments of whose dreamy... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 278 pages
...Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. AUGUST. 63 And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender...still and saintlike, Looking downward from the skies. Utter'd not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer, Soft rebukes, in blessings ended,... | |
| John Keese - 1844 - 140 pages
...Weary with the march of lifel Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And, as she sits and gazes at me, With those deep and tender...Soft rebukes, in blessings ended, Breathing from her lips of air. Oh, though oft depressed and lonely, All my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only... | |
| 1844 - 858 pages
...all things else to love me. And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comee that messenger divine ; Takes the vacant chair beeide...so still and saint-like. Looking downward from the eklea. Uttered not, yet comprehended. Is the spirit's voiceless prayer. Soft rebukes, in blessings... | |
| 1844 - 878 pages
...heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that mcsricnper divine ; Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and...so still and saint-like. Looking downward from the ttklcs. Uttered not, yet comprehended. Is the spirit's voiceless prayer, Soft rebukes, in blessings... | |
| 1844 - 298 pages
...Comes the messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And, as she sits and gazes at me, With those deep and tender...from the skies, Uttered not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit'a voiceless prayer, Soft rebukes, in blessings ended, Breathing from her lips of air. Oh, though... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1844 - 922 pages
...a smile, placing herself entirely in our hands. It was decided to put it in practice. CHAPTER VIII. And she sits and gazes at me, With those deep and...still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies. LONGFELLOW. THE next morning I set about the measures necessary for carrying out our plan. Marble was... | |
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