 | James Augustin Stothert - 1859 - 154 pages
...dead, in such lines as these of Longfellow's : — " With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me,...and saint-like. Looking downward from the skies." Set free, indeed, from the control of religion, this spiritual instinct of our nature has run wild,... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - Old age in literature - 1859 - 326 pages
...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,...still and saintlike, Looking downward from the skies. Uttered not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer, Soft rebukes in blessings ended, Breathing... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - American fiction - 1859 - 514 pages
...smile, placing herself entirely in our hands, 1t was decided to put it in practice. CHAPTER XXX. " And she sits and gazes at me, With those deep and...and saint-like, Looking. downward from the skies." LONGFELLOW. THE next morning I set about the measures necessary foi carrying out our plan. Marble wns... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1860 - 514 pages
...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,...still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies. Uttered not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer, Soft rebukes, in blessings ended,... | |
 | S. R. - 1860 - 306 pages
...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,...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, Henry Ketcham - 1901 - 380 pages
...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,...her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at mte With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from... | |
 | Moses Hull - Bible and spiritualism - 1901 - 468 pages
...divine, Take the vacant chair beside me, Lay their gentle hands in mine. " And they sit and gaze upon me, With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars,...still, and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies. " Uttered not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer Soft wishes in blessings ended, Breathing... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1901 - 488 pages
...footstep Comes that messenger divine, akes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. nd she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, jke the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies. 'tiered not, yet comprehended,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1902 - 924 pages
...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,...saint-like, Looking downward from the skies. " The night ia come, but not too soon Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ; The beloved,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1902 - 744 pages
...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,...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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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... 
