 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
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 712 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 rhymo of the poet The beauty... | |
 | John Dennis - Pastoral poetry, English - 1865 - 344 pages
...Read 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." TALBOT. An apt though very familiar quotation. Truly a simple poem like this may be loved as much and... | |
 | Echoes - 1865 - 244 pages
...Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from the 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1865 - 388 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...quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the henediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice,... | |
 | William Garden Blaikie - Industrial relations - 1865 - 288 pages
...glorious company of the apostles, the goodly fellowship of the prophets, the noble army of martyrs ?"— " Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse...come like the benediction That follows after prayer," Do not say, "These are mere dreams of fancy. There is too much knocking about in the workman's house... | |
 | William Garden Blaikie - Industrial relations - 1865 - 300 pages
...company of the apostles, the goodly fellowship of the prophets, the noble army of martyrs ?" — " Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse...come like the benediction That follows after prayer." Do not say, "These are mere dreams of fancy. There is too much knocking about in the workman's house... | |
 | Acrostics - 1865 - 260 pages
...hands.' IMC 317 ' Her presence fell on their hearts Like a ray of the sun on the walls of a prison.' ' Who through long days of labour, And nights devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the music Of wondrous melodies.' 1. ' I mean that Douglas Sixth of yore, Who coronet of Angus bore.' 2. ' The lava... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1866 - 332 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1866 - 710 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...songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, i And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - History - 1859 - 302 pages
...tears from the eyelids start; Who through long days of labor, And nights devoid of ease, Still heard iu his soul the music Of wonderful melodies. Such songs...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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