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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... "
The North American Review - Page 268
edited by - 1840
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The Richmond County Mirror, Volume 3

New York (N.Y.) - 1839 - 226 pages
...vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. VII,. And she sits and gazes at me, With her 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 prayer, Soft rebukes, in blessings ended,...
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The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 13

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1839 - 614 pages
...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...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....
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 13

American periodicals - 1839 - 584 pages
...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, Looking downward froin the skies. Uttered not, yet comprehended. Is the spirit's voiceless prayer. Soft rebukes, in...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 15

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1840 - 566 pages
...her the ballads of the olden time ; while ' She sat, and gazed upon me, With those deep and lender eyes, Like the stars, so still, and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies." I have again heard her breathe my name, in accents sweeter than the song of the nightingale. Another...
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The North American Review, Volume 50

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1840 - 588 pages
...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,...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...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 10; Volume 28

Theology - 1840 - 424 pages
...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,...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...
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Selections from the American Poets, Issue 111

William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1840 - 328 pages
...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,...still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies. Utter'd not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer, Oh, though oft depress'd and lonely,...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 8

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1840 - 686 pages
...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,...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,...
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The Bowdoin Poets

Edward Payson Weston - American poetry - 1840 - 224 pages
...beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me, With those deep and tender eyes, Uttered not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer, Soft rebukes, in blessings ended, Ereathing from her lips of air. O, though oft depressed and lonely, All my fears are laid aside, If...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 15

American periodicals - 1840 - 568 pages
...first and only love, and sang to her the ballads of the olden time ; while ' She sat, and gazed upon me, With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still, and spint-like, Looking downward from the skits." I have again heard her breathe my name, in accents sweeter...
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