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... Readings in American Poetry - Página 63por Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 264 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| University magazine - 1850 - 816 páginas
...Looking downward from the skies. " Uttered, not yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer ; Sufi rebukes, in blessings ended, Breathing from her lips of air. " Oh ! though oft depressed and lonely, АП my fears are kid aside, If I but remember only Such as these have lived... | |
| Garland - 1850 - 152 páginas
...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, Uttered not, yet comprehended Is the spirit's voiceless prayer ; Soft rebukes in blessings ended, Breathing... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 páginas
...that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. " And she sita and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stare, so still and saintlike, Looking downward from the skies. " Uttered, not yet comprehended, Is... | |
| Meta Lander - 1861 - 354 páginas
...shadowy twilight, — IMAGE IH THE HEART. Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender...still and saintlike, Looking downward from the skies." If, for a time, we cease to feel the chastening influence of sorrow, and the heart becomes worldly,... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 páginas
...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...still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies. Uttered not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer, Soft rebukes, in blessings ended,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 páginas
...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...still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies. Uttered not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer, Soft rebukes, in blessings ended,... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1851 - 520 páginas
...a smile, placing herself entirely in our hands. It was decided to put it in practice). CHAPTER XV. "And she sits and gazes at me, With those deep and...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... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 256 páginas
...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...still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies. Uttered not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer, Soft rehukes, in blessings ended,... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 248 páginas
...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...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... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 páginas
...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,...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 Such as these... | |
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