For, like strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavor; 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, Or tears from the eyelids... Macmillan's Magazine - Page 351886Full view - About this book
| 1857 - 780 pages
...from the eyelids start. Who, through long days of Iul<our, And nights devoid of ease, Still heard iu his soul the music Of wonderful melodies. Such songs...come like the benediction That follows after prayer. But never, since the day she rejected his offer, had he spoken of love to her again. If, thought le,... | |
| Fashion - 1850 - 464 pages
...from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start ; Who, through long days...come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasur'd volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty... | |
| Fashion - 1870 - 726 pages
...Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gush 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 heard on his soul the music Of wonderlul melodies. Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care.... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1845 - 530 pages
...showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start ; " Who, through long days of labor, And nights devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul...come like the benediction That follows after prayer." 42* 2. — Conversations on some of the Old Poets. By JAMES RUSSELL LOwELL. Cambridge : John Owen.... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1845 - 540 pages
...from the eyelids start ; " Who, through long days of labor, And nights devoid of ease, Still beard in his soul the music Of wonderful melodies. " Such...come like the benediction That follows after prayer." 2. — Conversations on some of the Old Poets. By JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. Cambridge : John Owen. 1845.... | |
| 1845 - 888 pages
...Btart: And night s devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the music Who through long days of labor, Of wonderful melodies. Such songs have power to quiet...come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty... | |
| 1883 - 798 pages
...memories and hearts, then shall we realise what he, who hath joined the poets of the past, once wrote. " Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse...come like the benediction That follows after prayer. " A Temperance Lecturer was once asked, " What shall we do with the grain now used in making whiskey... | |
| 1907 - 516 pages
...songs gushed from his heart As showers from the clouds of summer Or tears from the eyelids start. — Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follow? after prayer, ?Q Ac felly ninnau, ddarllennydd ; os bodlon wyt, ymdroi a vvnawn am ychydig... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1846 - 178 pages
...showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start ; Who, through long days of labor, And nights devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul...come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 170 pages
...songs gush'd from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids »tart; Who, through long days of labour, And -nights devoid...come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volun-c The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The... | |
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