 | Thomas Cox (Poet.) - 1866 - 100 pages
...literary amusement after the day's turmoil is over, and who will condescend — " To read from some humble poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or as tears from the eyelids start; Who, through long days of labour, And nights devoid of ease, Still... | |
 | Mary Andrews Denison - American fiction - 1867 - 372 pages
...fingers hurriedly, and touea Of melancholy beauty, died away Upon its strings of sweetness." " Whose song gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eye-lids start." a second mother, you might have added," said Lieutenant Weiss, who, for the last ten minutes had appeared... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - Baptists - 1867 - 526 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 Through the corridors of time. Head from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1868 - 410 pages
...restless feeling, And hanish the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the hards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the...Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavour ; And to-night I lon.j for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his... | |
 | American periodicals - 1868 - 846 pages
...in ' this country, has heard, we suppose, in imagination that magnificent tramp of ghostly poets, " From the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time," and has probably felt an increased respect for Time in consequence of thus attributing to it a manorial... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1870 - 642 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... | |
 | George Heath - 1870 - 294 pages
...IN HORTON CHURCHYARD, RAISED BY SUBSCRIPTION ... 261 MEMOIR OF GEORGE WEATH. " Read from some humble poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart As showers...from the eyelids start. Who, through long days of labour, And nights devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the music Of wonderful melodies." — Longfellow.... | |
 | 1907 - 1184 pages
...well, I have sought for sympathy in happiness and in sorrow — ' Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of time,' but from that pure and gentle and untroubled spirit." What I feel about Longfellow many English men... | |
 | Cycle - 1871 - 202 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... | |
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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. 
