 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
 | 1851 - 1220 pages
...shi> sits and gazes at me Witli those det- p ami tender cyea, Like the stars, so still and "int-like, Looking downward from the skies. "Uttered not, yet...Is the spirit's voiceless prayer, Soft rebukes, in blessing euded, Breathing from her lips of air. "Oh, though oft depressed and lonely, AH my fears are... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 256 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...comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer, Soft rehukes, in blessings ended, Breathing from her lips of air. O, thongh oft depressed and lonely, All... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 248 pages
...m.«-. 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...and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies." The best of our literature may be described as a return to faith. And the literature of the next age... | |
 | Edward Rupert Humphreys - 1852 - 190 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...deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint- like, Looking downwards from the skies. Uttered not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless... | |
 | 1852 - 196 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, With those deep and tender eyes, 112 FOREST HYMN. Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies. Uttered... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 pages
...deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saintlike, Looking downward from the skies. Uttcr'd not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer,...Soft rebukes, in blessings ended, Breathing from her lips of air. O, though oft depress'd and lonely, All my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only... | |
 | Martha Noyes Williams - 1853 - 292 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. 76 TO A BEREAVED SISTER. 0, though oft depressed and lonely, All my fears are laid aside,... | |
 | Anna U. Russell - 1853 - 580 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...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
...a messenger divine. 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...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,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 496 pages
...given, 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 "vVith those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the... | |
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