 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 - American poetry - 1867 - 482 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...ease, Still heard in his soul the music Of wonderful melod,es. The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction Such songs have power to quiet... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...creep A little out, and then, As if they play'd at bo-peep, Did soon draw in again. HERRICK. CAEE. SUCH songs have power to quiet The restless pulse...come like the benediction That follows after prayer. * * * * And the night shall be fill'd with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - Baptists - 1867 - 526 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." • Indeed the songs and poems which are canonized in the memory and heart, for the largest part, are... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1867 - 788 pages
...These old hymns have great power over, and charm us. They in truth, 1863.] Tha J»y* of Heaven. 27 'have power to quiet, The restless pulse of care, And come like the benciliclion, That follows after prayer." Peter Daruiani wrote of the "joys of heaven," in strains... | |
 | John Swett - Elocution - 1867 - 252 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 tliy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The... | |
 | Christian poetry - 1868 - 194 pages
...-NRLF ,., • ' / '1 ,1 I / CHIEFLY SELECTED FROM MODERN AUTHORS. "Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse...come like the benediction That follows after prayer!" WITH UPWARDS OF ONE HUNDRED ENGRAVINGS. fcfa gorh : PREFACE. N this little volume we have endeavoured... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1868 - 410 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, Still beard in his soul the music Of wonderful melodies. Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse... | |
 | John Swett - Elocution - 1868 - 246 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 Bongs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after... | |
 | Christian lyrics - 1868 - 194 pages
... 600079653 (Christian CHIEFLY SELECTED FROM MODERN AUTHORS. 'Such songs have power to quid The restless pulse of care : And come like the benediction That follows alter prayer!" .&& • I'BOM TIIF IFKIZI PAt-ACE. WITH UPWARDS OF ONE HUNDRED ENGRAVINGS. Bonbon :... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1870 - 642 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... | |
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