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
| Edward Rupert Humphreys - 1852 - 190 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, Like the stars, so still and saint- like, Looking downwards from the skies. Uttered not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless... | |
| 1852 - 196 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, 112 FOREST HYMN. Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies. Uttered... | |
| Anna U. Russell - 1853 - 580 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, but comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer, Soft rebukes, in blessings ended,... | |
| Martha Noyes Williams - 1853 - 290 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,... | |
| 1853 - 402 páginas
...footstep Conies that messenger 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...still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies. Uttered not, yet comprehended. Is the spirit's voiceless prayer, Soft rebukes, in blessings ended,... | |
| A. C. Rose - 1852 - 150 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 skies Uttered not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer, Soft rebukes, in blessings ended,... | |
| William Harrison - 1853 - 214 páginas
...recompensed EM Birch 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... | |
| 1854 - 794 páginas
...footstep Comes the 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...still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies. Uttered not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer, Soft rebukes, in blessings ended,... | |
| John Cumming - 1854 - 308 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,... | |
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