 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.  The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Page 212by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1857 - 400 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Garland - Poetry - 1872 - 170 pages
...akin 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...toil and endeavour; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gush'd from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 730 pages
...akin 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...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 clonds of summer,... | |
 | Poetry - 1872 - 710 pages
...an evil stock, and will grieve thec. MF Tuppei: 2782. SOTOS, Quieting. "Come, read to me some poem, 2 Snch songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like ths benediction That follows... | |
 | Lurton Dunham Ingersoll, David Livingstone - Africa, Central - 1872 - 478 pages
...is by Homer, or its author, or Shakespeare, or Milton or any of the rest of the grand old masters, the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time." Dr. Livingstone's genius for exploration was again gratified on the 1st of June, 1849, when, in company... | |
 | George Walter Baynham - 1873 - 344 pages
...akin 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...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,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1873 - 294 pages
...Come, read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling, Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards...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,... | |
 | Stephen M. Lanigan - Aesthetics - 1873 - 238 pages
...poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, Which shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish the cares of day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose mighty footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time. For, like strains of martial music, Their mighty... | |
 | Gertrude Parsons - 1874 - 374 pages
...MACDONALD AND TUGWELL, BLENHEIM HOUSE. MARIAN'S TRUST. CHAPTER I. RESTLESS. Come read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this...restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of day. LONGFELLOW. parting between Marian and Charley •*- had been a remarkable one. There was all the hunger... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 616 pages
...seem inclined to beg off the severer for the lighter verse, or ask that the reading should be — ' Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose trampling footsteps echo Down the corridors of time.' And, lastly, Mrs. Somerville was a very fair... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 pages
...seem inclined to beg off the severer for the lighter verse, or ask that the reading should be — * Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose trampling footsteps echo Down the corridors of time.' . And, lastly, Mrs. Somerville was a very fair... | |
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