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... The Bowdoin Poets - Page 143by Edward Payson Weston - 1840 - 188 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... | |
| 1839 - 584 pages
...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, Jf 1 but remember only JSjich as lluse have lived and dieij.< MOCHA DICK > OK THE WHITE WHALK OF THS... | |
| 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... | |
| 1840 - 424 pages
...lighted, And, like shadows grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful fire-light Dance upon the parlour wall ; " Then the forms of the departed Enter at the...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... | |
| 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... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...the stars, so still and saintlike, Looking downward from the skies. Utter'd not, yet comprehended, la the spirit's voiceless prayer, Soft rebukes, in blessings...ended, Breathing from her lips of air. O, though oft depress'd and lonely, All my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only Such as these have lived... | |
| 1842 - 506 pages
...from the skies. TOL. TII. 32 242 A THOUGHT OF THE PAST. [March, " Uttered not, yet comprehended Was the spirit's voiceless prayer, Soft rebukes, in blessings ended, Breathing from her lips of air." Upon this we make no further comment — it need only be read to be fully appreciated. We have thus... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 278 pages
...deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saintlike, Looking downward from the skies. Utter'd not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer,...in blessings ended, Breathing from her lips of air. Oh, though oft depress'd and lonely, All my fears are laid aside If I but remember only Such as these... | |
| John Keese - 1844 - 140 pages
...Weary with the march of lifel Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And, as she sits and gazes at me, With those deep and tender...in blessings ended, Breathing from her lips of air. Oh, though oft depressed and lonely, All my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only Such as these... | |
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