 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...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...for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gush'd from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start ; Who,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - American literature - 1853 - 522 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 470 pages
...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...Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Tune. For, like strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavour... | |
 | Richard Wright Procter - Poetry - 1855 - 490 pages
...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...for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gush'd from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start ; Who... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 264 pages
...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...distant footsteps e'cho Through the corridors of Time, Life's endless toil and endeavour ; ' And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose... | |
 | 1855 - 714 pages
...popular. For, while we do not anticipate for Mr. Longfellow a place among " The grand old masters, The bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of time," we hold him to be among the first of those whose " Songs hare power to quiet The restless pulse of... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 810 pages
...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...toil and endeavour ; And to-night I long for rest. Bead from some humbler poet, Whose songs gashed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1856 - 432 pages
...this restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from tlio bards sublime. Whose distant footsteps echo Through...corridors of Time. For, like strains of martial music, Tlioir mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavour ; And to-night I long for rest. Read... | |
 | Edward Capern - 1856 - 246 pages
... 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
...close of the day's labors, when the spirit seeks repose and quiet enjoyment from reading poetry, but " 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 reet." The effect of earnestness on the mind is to give it honesty... | |
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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, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of time. 
