 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American literature - 1881 - 1078 pages
...ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more ! And with them the Being Beauteous, Who unto rny youth was given, Mere than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 698 pages
...holy ones and weakly Who the cross of suffering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more ! And with them the Being Beauteous,...Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair lieside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes.... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth - 1882 - 388 pages
...a great deal on the subject many years ago. Scanty as the information is, however, it is correct." "And with them the Being Beauteous, Who unto my youth...saint in heaven. " With a slow and noiseless footstep Conies that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. "And... | |
 | Thomas Davidson - 1882 - 36 pages
...wife, who died at Rotterdam, November 29, 1835. The poet speaks of her in " Footsteps of Angels " as " the Being Beauteous Who unto my youth was given, More...things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven." D HESTRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. On his return to America in 1836, Longfellow took up his residence in... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 588 pages
...ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more ! And with them the Being Beauteous,...love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow nnd noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1883 - 356 pages
...ones and weakly. Who the cross of suffering Ijore, Folded their pale hands so meekly. Spake with us on earth no more ! And with them the Being Beauteous,...things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. • FLOWERS. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comee that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1883 - 320 pages
...ones and weakly. Who the cross of 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 all tilings else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseleRB footstep Comes that... | |
 | Gems - 1884 - 408 pages
...ones and weakly, who the cross of suffering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly, spake with us on earth no more ! And with them the Being Beauteous,...divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, lays her gentlo hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me with those deep and tender eyes, Uttered not, yet... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1884 - 338 pages
...peri&htJ, Weary with the march of life ! They, the holy ones and we-akly, Who the cross of suffeiing bore, And with them the Being Beauteous, Who unto my youth...things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. I With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me,... | |
 | New England - 1900 - 850 pages
...few years later while travelling with him in Europe, he tenderly refers in "Footsteps of Angels" as the "Being Beauteous Who unto my youth was given,...things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven." Samuel Longfellow, the biographer of the poet and the author of many familiar hymns, some of them among... | |
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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. 
