 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...  Songs of Ourselves: The Uses of Poetry in America - Page 115by Joan Shelley Rubin - 2009 - 488 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Fashion - 1870 - 726 pages
...masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time. For like strains of martial music. Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavours — And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gush from his... | |
 | 1845 - 888 pages
...masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of time. For, like strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavour; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart,... | |
 | 1907 - 516 pages
...masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of time. For, like strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavour, And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet Whose songs gushed from his heart... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1846 - 178 pages
...masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time. For, like strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavour ; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - Periodicals - 1850 - 462 pages
...masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of time. For, like strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endearonr ; And to-night I long for reet. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of time. For, like strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts...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,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time. For, like strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavour; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1852 - 256 pages
...masters. Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time. For, like strains of martial music, 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.... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - American literature - 1853 - 522 pages
...masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of time. For, like strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts...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,... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time ; For, like strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavour ; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gush'd from his... | |
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