 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...  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 3761839Full view - About this book
 | Songs - 1856 - 712 pages
...— Folded their pale hands so meekly, — Spake with us on earth no more ! And with them the Being Beauteous, Who unto my youth was given, More than...the stars, so still and saintlike, Looking downward from the skies. Utter' d not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer, Soft rebukes, in... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1856 - 432 pages
...pale hands so meekly, Spake with iis on earth no more! 15 FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS. And with them the Being Beauteous, Who unto my youth was given, More than...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 810 pages
...suffering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more ! And with them the Being Beauteous, Who unto my youth was given, More than...and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Take? the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those... | |
 | Education - 1899 - 430 pages
...wife, a lady of great loveliness of character, died at Rotterdam in 1835. — The being beauteous That unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. "Excelsior" was written on a late autumn evening in 1841. The poet had just been reading a letter from... | |
 | J. B. Packard, J. S. Loveland - Hymns, English - 1856 - 104 pages
...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, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies. Uttered not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer, Soft rebukes in blessings... | |
 | Thomas Vincent Fosbery - Christian poetry - 1857 - 436 pages
...suffering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more ! And with them the being beauteous, Who unto my youth was given, More than...the stars, so still and saintlike, Looking downward from the skies. Uttered not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer, Soft rebukes, in blessings... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1857 - 428 pages
...their pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more ! ir, And with them the Being Beanteous, Who unto my youth was given, More than all things...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... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1857 - 70 pages
...hope betrays ; Heavy is woe ; and joys for human kind A mournful thing, so transient is the blaze. With a slow and noiseless footstep, Comes that messenger...vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. Birds seek their nests ; the ox, horse, and other domestic animals sleep around us. The richest dress... | |
 | Eliza Ann Bacon - 1857 - 376 pages
...awoke from his dream of the angel ladder; then, ' With a slow and noiseless footstep, Comes the visitor divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine.' " Sweet and holy are the communions that follow, and, when the spell is broken, we feel like the astronomer... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1858 - 752 pages
...ones and weakly, Who the cross of snffernig bore, And with them the Being Beanteous, Who unto my yonth was given. More than all things else to love me, And...the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies. Uttered not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer, Soft rebnkes, in blessings... | |
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