 | Various - Poetry - 1996 - 496 pages
...of day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo 20 Through the corridors of Time. For, like strains of...endless toil and endeavor; And to-night I long for rest. 25 Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Leonard Cassuto - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 228 pages
...thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters. Not from the bards sublime. Whose distant footsteps erho Through the corridors of time. For. like strains of martial music, Their mighn thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavour; And to-night I long for rest. As showers... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...the day Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as si Irmly steal away. 6480 'The Day is Done' rica is the way parents obey their children. 3150 (speaking at derelict Iron a 6481 'Elegiac Verse' If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies... | |
 | Frank Mehring - Nature in literature - 2001 - 194 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. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer,... | |
 | Paul Negri - Poetry - 2002 - 146 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...some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, Who, through long days of labor, And nights devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the music Of wonderful... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 538 pages
...concluding stanzas Longfellow described the kind of poetry which he and his readers appreciated best: Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from...clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start. Another poem in this volume which is familiar to every school-child is "The Arrow and the Song." when... | |
 | George Rapanos - Religion - 2006 - 295 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...clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start; 153 Who, through long days of labor, And nights devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the music Of... | |
 | Joan Shelley Rubin - History - 2009 - 488 pages
...repel his sorrow, the narrator cautions that the text must be "Not from the grand old masters" because "like strains of martial music, / Their mighty thoughts...toil and endeavor; / And to-night I long for rest." But, in any case, for late-nineteenthand early-twentieth-century educators the ability of poetry to... | |
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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. 
