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" And nights devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the music Of wonderful melodies. Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy... "
The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems - Page 80
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1846 - 151 pages
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The Vale of Strathmore: Its Scenes and Legends

James Cargill Guthrie - Legends - 1875 - 550 pages
...simple and heart-felt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling. And banish the thoughts of day. " Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy...their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away." The moonlight garden-suppers of Titian, rendered intensely delicious hy the fascinating music...
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The Vale of Strathmore: Its Scenes and Legends

James Cargill Guthrie - Legends - 1875 - 558 pages
...simple and heart-felt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of day. " Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy...their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away." The moonlight garden-suppers of Titian, rendered intensely delicious by the fascinating music...
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Literary Theory and Criticism

Edgar Allan Poe, Leonard Cassuto - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 228 pages
...heard in his soul the music Of wonderful melodies. Such songs have power to quiet The restless polse of care, And come like the benediction That follows...infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, As thev silently steal awav. With no great range of imagination, these lines have been justly admired...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...When she was good She was very, very good, But when she was bad she was horrid. 6479 'The Day is Done' g except temptation. 12569 Lady Windermere's Fan We are all si Irmly steal away. 6480 'The Day is Done' The bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through...
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Pearls and Pebbles

Catharine Parr Traill - Fiction - 1999 - 239 pages
...Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Day is Done," from The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems (1846), Stanza 11: And the night shall be filled with music, And the...their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. This particular paragraph reveals Traill's appreciation of Longfellow; she often appropriates...
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101 Questions about Your Skin that Got Under Your Skin ... Until Now: That ...

Faith Hickman Brynie - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1999 - 186 pages
...snow, rub it, or expose it to a roaring fire. Rewarming should be slow and medical attention prompt. And the night shall be filled with music, And the...cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like Arabs, And as silently steal away. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW ody's skin looked fine when he was born....
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A Sherwood Bonner Sampler, 1869-1884: What a Bright, Educated, Witty, Lively ...

Katherine Sherwood Bonner McDowell - History - 2000 - 532 pages
...southerner — on slavery. 12. An allusion to "The Day Is Done" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, stanza 1 1: "And the night shall be filled with music, / And the...their tents, like the Arabs, / And as silently steal away." Bonner had met Longfellow the previous December. 13. The preacher-scientist Jones, alluded to...
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New Burlington: The Life and Death of an American Village

John Baskin - New Burlington (Ohio) - 1976 - 282 pages
...dark. I wanted to see her. To know she was alive. Before electricity farmers went around with lanterns. The night shall be filled with music and the cares that infest the day shall fold their tents like Arabs and silently steal away. That is possibly Longfellow but certainly not Sarah Haydock. I am such...
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Favorite American Poems

Paul Negri - Poetry - 2002 - 146 pages
...endeavor; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, Who, through long days of labor, And nights devoid...their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. Paul Revere's Ride Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,...
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The New Anthology of American Poetry: Traditions and Revolutions, Beginnings ...

Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - Literary Collections - 2003 - 770 pages
...music Of wonderful melodies. Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from...their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. 1844 The Bridge I stood on the bridge at midnight, As the clocks were striking the hour, And...
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