 | Fashion - 1850 - 464 pages
...For, like strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavour ; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler...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... | |
 | Fashion - 1870 - 726 pages
...thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time. For like strains...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... | |
 | 1845 - 888 pages
...heartfelt lay, Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of time. For, like strains...Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavour; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart,... | |
 | 1907 - 516 pages
...thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of time. For, like strains...Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavour, And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet Whose songs gushed from his heart... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1845 - 540 pages
...Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of time " ; — but, " from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or team from the eyelids start ; " Who, through long days of labor, And nights devoid... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1846 - 178 pages
...thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time. For, like strains...Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavour ; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - Periodicals - 1850 - 438 pages
...For, like strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavour ; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler...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... | |
 | 430 pages
...thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, — Not from the bards sublime Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of time ; For, like strains...Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavour, And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...For, like strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts suggest Lite's endless toil and endeavour ; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler...Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start ; Who, through long days of labor, And nights devoid... | |
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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... 
