 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....  Poems - Page 78by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853Full view - About this book
 | Caroline Hyde Butler Laing - American fiction - 1855 - 480 pages
...plied her needle, Beatrice seated upon a little footstool by her sidj would " Read from some humble poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers...clouds of summer Or tears from the eye-lids start," for " Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1856 - 432 pages
...Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time. For, like strains of martial music, Tlioir mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavour...from the eyelids start ; Who, through long days of kbor, And nights devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the music Of wonderful melodies. Such songs... | |
 | Edward Capern - 1856 - 216 pages
...CAPERN, RURAL POSTMAN OF BIDEFORD, DEVON. " A humble Poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart AB showera from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start "Who through long days of labour, And nights devoid of ease. Still heard in his soul the music Of wonderful melodies. " Such... | |
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... 600082722R POEMS. i POEMS BY EDWARD CAPERN, IJostntHtt of $ ihforfc, Jefom. «« A humble Poet, "Whose songs gushed from his heart As showers from the clouds of summer, Or.tears from the eyelids start " Who through long days of labour, And nights devoid of ease, Still... | |
 | 1857 - 834 pages
...old masters, Not. from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time. For, like strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavor, And to-night I long for reet." The effect of earnestness on the mind is to give it honesty... | |
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...Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavour ; And to-night I long for rest. Head from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clonds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start ; Who, through long days of labour, And nights devoid... | |
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...old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time. For, like strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts...from the eyelids start ; Who through long days of labour, And nights devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the music Of wonderful melodies. Such songs... | |
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...within for that reason. To Longfellow and his poems we feel that his own words most truly apply:— Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from...clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start j Who, through long days of labour, And nights devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the music Of... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - American poetry - 1858 - 388 pages
...sublime, Whose distant footsteps eeho Through the eorridors of Time. For, like strains of martial musie, Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavour; And to-night I long for rest. lîead from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As sho',vers from the elouds of summer,... | |
 | Education - 1858 - 402 pages
...masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant foot-steps echo Through the corridors of time ; For like strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavor, And to-night I long for rest. But read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his... | |
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