 | Samuel Longfellow - Authors, American - 1886 - 478 pages
...the studies of girls than were the mathematics. She is commemorated in the well-known lines as — the being beauteous, Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me.1 They were tenderly devoted to each other ; and never was a home more happy than theirs, when,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1887 - 360 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,...to love me, , And is now a saint in heaven. With a Blow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - Artists - 1887 - 632 pages
...In the year 1831, he had married Mary Storer Potter, of Portland, a lovely lady, now remembered as "the being beauteous Who unto my youth was given More than all things else to love me." In 1835, being in somewhat delicate health, she accompanied him on a European tour before he entered... | |
 | Drama - 1906 - 554 pages
...of the departed Enter at the open door; The belov'd ones, the true-hearted Come to sit with me once more. 'And with them the being beauteous Who unto...heaven. 'With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes she like a shape divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. 'And she sits... | |
 | American poetry - 1891 - 734 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,'...and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, k Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine ; And she sits and gazes at me With... | |
 | Grace Townsend - English poetry - 1891 - 570 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 ray youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow... | |
 | Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club - Herefordshire (England) - 1892 - 440 pages
...have drunken, almost in silence, as if a spirit hovered over us, and overpowered us by its presence. " With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger Divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays his gentle hand in mine ; And he sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars,... | |
 | Marshman William Hazen - Readers - 1895 - 452 pages
...the cross of suffering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more ! 6. And with them the being beauteous Who unto my youth...things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. 7. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me,... | |
 | Marshman William Hazen - Readers - 1895 - 450 pages
...the cross of suffering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more ! 6. And with them the being beauteous Who unto my youth...things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. 7. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...blow That will break the ties that bound us Many, many years ago. T. LOKER : Many, Many Years Age. And with them the Being Beauteous, Who unto my youth...things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. LONGFELLOW : Footstep: ofAngtls. 714 There groups of merry children play'd, There youths and maidens... | |
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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. 
