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
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - Periodicals - 1850 - 438 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 treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty... | |
| 430 pages
...showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start :— Who through long days of lahour. 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 - 1850 - 462 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 - American poetry - 1850 - 476 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... | |
| Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - Periodicals - 1850 - 462 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 of labour, And nights dсvoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the music Of wonderful melodies. Such songs have power to... | |
| Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 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 the music Of wonderful melodies. Such songs as have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 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 of labour, And nights devoid of ease, Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1852 - 258 pages
...from some humbler poet. Whose songs gushed from his heart. As showers from the clouds of summer. ( )r tears from the eyelids start ; Who, through long days...labour. And nights devoid of ease, Still heard in his sonl the music Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction... | |
| George William Curtis - Atlantic States - 1852 - 220 pages
...poet, let us escape the battle-cry and the bugle-call, and repose that we may the better wrestle. " Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse...come like the benediction That follows after prayer." Trenton is that summer-song of rest. Only lovely images haunt its remembrance, beautiful as the Iris... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 470 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... | |
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