Come, read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of time. Voices of the Night, and Other Poems - Page 120by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 228 pagesFull view - About this book
| Fashion - 1850 - 464 pages
...akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles rain. Come read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless...toil and endeavour ; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer,... | |
| Fashion - 1870 - 726 pages
...mist resembles the rain. Come, read to me some poem. Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall sooth this restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of...Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavours — And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gush from his... | |
| 1907 - 516 pages
...o'r tu hwnt i'r Môr Werydd. Dyma hwy, heb eu cyfieithu : — • Come, read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay That shall soothe this restless...toil and endeavour, And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet Whose songs gushed from his heart As showers from the clouds of summer... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1845 - 652 pages
...to pain, And resembles Borrow only As the mist resembles the rain. Come, read to me come poem. Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless...day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the hards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of time. For, like strains of martial... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1845 - 540 pages
...poems in another mood of mind, they may appear too tame, uniform, and gentle ; for they come, — " Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards...distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of time " ; — but, " from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds... | |
| 1845 - 888 pages
...sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. That shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of day. Come, read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, Not from the grand old masters, Not from... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1846 - 178 pages
...to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. Come, read to me some .poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless...toil and endeavour ; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer,... | |
| 1847 - 814 pages
...sunshine with the shade.'' 1847.] Nine New Poets. Mr. Longfellow asks his I;ul y-love lo read to him. " Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards...Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of lime." This is pretty and musical, and conveys rather :i striking image: Mr. Head thus appropriates... | |
| 1847 - 784 pages
...vibrating, like the sunshine with the shadfe." Mr. Longfellow asks his lady-love to read lo him. " Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime, "Whose distant footsteps echo Through ihe corridors of liune." This is pretty and musical, and conveys rather a striking image ; Mr. Read... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - Periodicals - 1850 - 438 pages
...to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. Dome, read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless...toil and endeavour ; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer,... | |
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