 | James Augustin Stothert - 1859 - 154 Seiten
...footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. " And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender...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,... | |
 | HENRY HOWE - 1859 - 748 Seiten
...footstep, Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me, With those deep and...still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies. Utter'd not. yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer, Soft rebukes, in blessings ended,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1860 - 514 Seiten
...footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender...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 Seiten
...footstep, Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine ; And she sits and gazes at me, With those deep and...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, John Gilbert - 1860 - 448 Seiten
...footstep Comes that messenger divine, 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-lik,-. Looking downward from the skies. Uttered not, yet comprchended, Is the spirit's voiecless... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - 1860 - 136 Seiten
...footstep 25 Comes that messenger divine, 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, 30 Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies. Uttered not, yet comprehended,... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 Seiten
...footstep, Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine ; And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender...still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies. Utter'd not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer \ Soft rebukes, in blessings ended,... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1861 - 844 Seiten
...footstep, Comes that messenger divine, Tnkes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me, , With those deep and...still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies: Utter'd not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer, Soft rebukes, in blessings ended,... | |
 | J C. Graham - 1861 - 134 Seiten
...footstep, Comes that messenger divine ; Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender...still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies. Uttered not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer ; Soft rebukes in blessing ended, Breathing... | |
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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... 
