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 Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Page 86by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1879 - 379 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1850 - 464 pages
...pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasur'd volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme...their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. — Longfellow. LITERATURE. THE HOUR CIRCLE. (Egan, St. Martin' tlane.) — Some months ago,... | |
| 1845 - 888 pages
...Btart: And night s devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the music Who through long days of labor, Of wonderful melodies. Such songs have power to quiet...their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. How sweet, how inexpressibly beautiful, are the following tender lines from the tender heart... | |
| 1891 - 672 pages
...he knew. Emenon, ' The Problem.' " Old father antic, the law." Shakspeare, 1 King Henry IV.,' I. ii. And the night shall be filled with music, And the...their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. Longfellow, ' The Day is Done.' Blessed are the horny hands of toil. Lowell, ' A Glance Bebind... | |
| 430 pages
...volume The poem of thy choice. And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the uight shall be filled with music. And the cares that infest...their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. THE LEISURE HOURS, — HOW ARE THEY SPENT i. "How do the people spend their leisure hours ?"... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...For, like strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts suggest Lite's endless toil and endeavour ; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler...their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. SEAWEED. WHEN descends on the Atlantic The gigantic Storm-wind of the equinox, Landward in his... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell - 1850 - 642 pages
...sadness and longing That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the miits resemble the rain And the night shall be filled with music, And the...their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal aaay. Now these lines are not to be scanned. They are referable to no true principles of rhythm. The... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 256 pages
...thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be tilled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall...marsh is frozen, The river dead. Through clouds like iishes, The red sun flashes On village windows That glimmer red. " The snow recommences ; The buried... | |
| 1852 - 528 pages
...which in happiness of expression and'sweetness will bear comparison with any in the volume : — • " And the night shall be filled with music ; And the...their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away." " The Slave's Dream " will also prove a favourite with most readers : it is written with more... | |
| George William Curtis - 1852 - 330 pages
...the women lay in voluptuous repose, crusted with jewels and completing the Paradise. > IV. Inoria. " The night shall be filled with music, And the cares...their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away." SUCH beautiful women we saw. Not, of course, the Muslim wives, but Hebrews, whose beauty is... | |
| George William Curtis - 1852 - 396 pages
...lay in voluptuous repose, crusted with jewels, and completing the Paradise. CHAPTER IV. HOURI3. " Tho night shall be filled with music, And the cares that...their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away." SUCH beautiful women we saw ! Not, of course, the Muslim wives, but Hebrews, whose beauty is... | |
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