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 63de Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 264 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 810 páginas
...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,...ended, Breathing from her lips of air. Oh, though oft depressed and lonely, All my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only Such as these have lived... | |
| J. B. Packard, J. S. Loveland - 1856 - 104 páginas
...divine, Take the vacant chair beside me, Lay their gentlo hands in mine; And they sit and gaze upon me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars,...still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies. Uttered not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer, Soft rebukes in blessings ended. Breathing... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 432 páginas
...vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those dee]) 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,... | |
| Thomas Vincent Fosbery - 1857 - 436 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 saintlike, Looking downward from the skies. Uttered not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer, Soft rebukes, in blessings ended,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 752 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 rebnkes, in blessings ended,... | |
| Owen Wynn - 1858 - 338 páginas
...which only his own hand could clear away, — terrible thought, of one we esteem and love. CHAPTER XVI. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender...the stars so still and saint-like, Looking downward lrom the skies. UUer'd not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer ; Soft rebukes in blessings... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - 1858 - 328 páginas
...more in sorrow than in anger, will often tell us what no words can *." " As they sit and gaze upon us With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saintlike, Looking downwards from the skies." "No doubt," says Gerson, "youths, with all their need of activity, are sometimes... | |
| 1858 - 664 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 eves, Like the stars so still and saint like, Looking downward from the skies. Uttered not, yet comprehended,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 812 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...depress'd and lonely, All my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only Such ns these have lived and died ! THE ARSENAL AT SPRINGFIELD. This is the Arsenal.... | |
| HENRY HOWE - 1859 - 748 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...rebukes, in blessings ended, Breathing from her lips of aiiv All my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only 0, though oft oppress'd and lonely, Such as... | |
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