 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...  Essays for Summer Hours - Page 170by Charles Lanman - 1842 - 250 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1840 - 566 pages
...the wild duck ; explored lonely valleys, or sailed upon the lake, which almost washed the threshhold of my happy home ; and gazed into its clear blue depths,...' She sat, and gazed upon me, With those deep and lender eyes, Like the stars, so still, and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies." I have again... | |
 | American periodicals - 1839 - 584 pages
...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 downward froin the skies. Uttered not, yet comprehended. Is the spirit's voiceless prayer. Soft rebukes, in... | |
 | American periodicals - 1840 - 568 pages
...the wild duck ; explored lonely valleys, or sailed upon the lake, which almost washed the threshhold of my happy home ; and gazed into its clear blue depths«...deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still, and spint-like, Looking downward from the skits." I have again heard her breathe my name, in accents sweeter... | |
 | Fashion - 1841 - 544 pages
...the wildduck, explored lonely valleys, or sailed upon the lake, which almost washed the threshbold of my happy home ; and gazed into its clear blue depths,...joyfully there, were bright and beautiful spirits II have sat once more beside that dear girl, who was my first and only love, and sang to her the ballads... | |
 | United States - 1843 - 708 pages
...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, Look ing down ward from the skies." The lamented Otway Curry — the few fragments of whose dreamy... | |
 | 1844 - 878 pages
...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 downward from the ttklcs. Uttered not, yet comprehended. Is the spirit's voiceless prayer, Soft rebukes, in blessings... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - Autobiographical fiction - 1844 - 516 pages
...herself entirely in our ' It was decided to put it in practice. CHAPTER XV. " And she sits and gazes at me, With those deep and tender eyes. Like the stars,...so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the shies." LONGFELLOW. THE next morning I set about the measures necessary f •' carrying out our plan.... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...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, booking downward from the skies. Uttered not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer —... | |
 | Literature - 1849 - 820 pages
...divine, Takes the vacant chair beside roe, Lays her gentle hand in mine, "And she sita and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint like. Looking downward from the skies." But it would be impossible — and I rejoice that it... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1892 - 678 pages
...wrote more touching and beautiful linen. AK SHILLBTO. (8'b 8. L 895.) And ihe Bite and gazes at ui With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the ikies. Longfellow, ' Footsteps of Angela.' HD The best of what we do and are Just Uod forgive. The... | |
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