 | 1850 - 902 pages
...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 saintlike, Looking downward from the skies. " Uttered, not yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer ; Soft rebukes, in blessings ended,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1839 - 614 pages
...slow and noiseless footstep, Comes that messenger divine, 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 skies. Soft rebukes, in blessings ended, Breathing from her lips of air. Uttered not, yet comprehended, IB... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Digital images - 1839 - 174 pages
...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 skies. Uttered not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer, Soft rebukes, in blessings ended,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1839 - 596 pages
...slow and noiseless footstep, Comes that messenger divine, And she sits and gazes et me, With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skits. Soft rebukes, in blessings ended, Breathing from her lips of air. Uttered not, yet comprehended,... | |
 | Edward Payson Weston - American poetry - 1840 - 224 pages
...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 skies. Uttered not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer, Soft rebukes, in blessings ended,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1840 - 178 pages
...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 skies. Uttered not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer, Soft rebukes, in blessings ended,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1840 - 182 pages
...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 skies. Uttered not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer, Soft rebukes, in blessings ended,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1840 - 558 pages
...and sang to her the ballads of the olden time ; while ' She sut, and gazed upon me, • With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still, and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies." I have again heard her breathe my name, in accents sweeter than the song of the nightingale. Another... | |
 | Theology - 1840 - 424 pages
...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 skies. " Uttered not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer, Soft rebukes, in blessings ended,... | |
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Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me, With her deep and tender eyes, Like the stars so still and saint-like Looking downward from the skies. Page 27. Spake full well, in language quaint and 
