 | James Nicholson - 1863 - 246 pages
...Minteterof John Street United Presbyterian Church, Glasgow. " Ktrt from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime. Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of time. " Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs pushed from his he*rt, As showers from the clouds of summer,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 712 pages
...shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo...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... | |
 | Frederick Hinde - 1864 - 150 pages
...And yet, this deathless trio — three such redoubted names as these • the grand old masters," • the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time," — to what a towering eminence have they culminated ! Homer, not only the poet, who, transcendently... | |
 | Echoes - 1865 - 244 pages
...shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo...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 the heart... | |
 | John Dennis - Pastoral poetry, English - 1865 - 344 pages
...soothe this restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of day. " Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1865 - 388 pages
...feeling, And hanish the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the hards suhlime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors...Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavour ; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humhler poet, Whose songs gushed from his... | |
 | 1865 - 592 pages
...Each, if he cannot write great things with the ink of life, " Not like the grand old masters, Not like the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of time;" if he cannot do this, he can still write " some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay," some life, that... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1866 - 332 pages
...soothe this restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, . . Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1866 - 710 pages
...shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo...strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts suggest Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer,... | |
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Come, read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time. 
