 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 472 pages
...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...and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, vVit-- tu- • le»'i' ".' •'. '.'WiiK..- <•>' •«. 1- ., i »• .,•.. S"»«t. . .'! I .... | |
 | William Clark Larrabee - American essays - 1855 - 292 pages
...dreams of love. To reach the sequestered retreat I, many years ago, with the fair and gentle being, " Who unto my youth, was given, More than all things else to love me," and the sweet little ones whom God had given us, and whose smiles threw sunshine along our pathway, wandered... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 568 pages
...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, With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 502 pages
...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, With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1856 - 432 pages
...suffering bore, Folded their 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...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
...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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Consolation - 1858 - 398 pages
...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...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 she... | |
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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... 
