 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1857 - 428 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 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...Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil anji endeavour; And to-night I long for rest. Head from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from... | |
 | Education - 1858 - 402 pages
...rain. 336 THE SCHOOLMASTER. That shall soothe this restless feeling And banish the thoughts of day. Kot from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime,...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... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - American poetry - 1858 - 388 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 sublime, Whose distant footsteps eeho Through the eorridors of Time. For, like strains of martial musie, Their mighty thoughts suggest... | |
 | Frederick Hinde - 1858 - 64 pages
...SOPHOCLES. And yet this deathless trio — three such redoubted names as these, the grand old masters," the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time," to what a towering eminence have they culminated HOMER, not only the Poet, who, transcendently " triumphant... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 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 gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer,... | |
 | HENRY HOWE - 1859 - 748 pages
...simple and heart-felt 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. Whose songs gushed from his heart, As show'rs from the clouds... | |
 | American literature - 1859 - 528 pages
...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 bis heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start ; Who through long... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 444 pages
...to him, in delicious numbers, all the loftiest conceptions of genius, from " The grand old masters, The bards sublime ; Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of time." Not only as conservators of the past, are books to be prized; they are also an ever-enduring source... | |
 | Souvenir - 1860 - 272 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...from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, '/ *0r tears from the eyelids start; 1 f Who, through long days of labour, And nights devoid of ease,... | |
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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. 
