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 mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like,... The Bowdoin Poets - Page 15edited by - 1849 - 180 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1839 - 226 pages
...deep and tender eyes, Like the stars so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies. IX. Uttered not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless...in blessings ended, Breathing from her lips of air. x. V O, though oft depressed and lonely, All my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only Such as... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1839 - 174 pages
...those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies. Uttered not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless...but remember only Such as these have lived and died ! FLOWERS. SPAKE full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1839 - 614 pages
...the stars so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies. Uttered not, yet comprehended, It the spirit's voiceless prayer, Soft rebukes, in blessings ended, Breathing from her lips of air. z. O, though oft depressed and lonely, All my fears are laid aside, If 1 but remember only Such as... | |
| 1839 - 584 pages
...those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars so still and saint-like, Looking downward froin the skies. Uttered not, yet comprehended. Is the spirit's voiceless prayer. Soft rebukes, in blessings endcu. Breathing from her lips of air. O, though oft depressed and lonely, All my fears are laid aside,... | |
| 1840 - 424 pages
...those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies. " Uttered not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless...but remember only Such as these have lived and died ! " ART. X. — Crania Americana ; or, a Comparative View of the Skulls of Various Aboriginal Nations... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 588 pages
...those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies. " Uttered not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless...laid aside, If I but remember only Such as these have fived and died ! " — pp. 14-16. The poem called " Flowers," is not so much to our taste ; it has... | |
| 1840 - 424 pages
...those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies. " Uttered not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless...in blessings ended, Breathing from her lips of air. s " O, though oft depressed and lonely, All my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only Such as... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1840 - 328 pages
...the skies. Utter'd not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer, Oh, though oft depress'd and lonely, All my fears are laid aside If I but remember only Such as these have lived and died ! THE SPIRIT OF POETRY. THERE is a quiet spirit in these woods, That dwells where'er the south wind... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1840 - 686 pages
...and tender eyes, Like the stars, so 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, Breathing from those lips of air. Oh ! though oft depress 'd and lonely, All my fears are laid aside, If I but remember... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1840 - 696 pages
...prayer ; Soft rebukes, in blessings ended, Breathing from those lips of air. Oh ! though oft depress'd and lonely, All my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN OUR TIME. BY WILLIAM JERDAN. THERE was, a hundred years ago, a King and Queen,... | |
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