 | 1870 - 726 pages
...feeling of sadness comes o'er me That my soul cannot resist. A feeling of sadness and longing That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist...some poem. Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall sooth this restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1845 - 652 pages
...is not akin to pain, And resembles Borrow only As the mist resembles the rain. Come, read to me come poem. Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe...day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the hards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of time. For, like strains of martial... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1845 - 540 pages
...poems in another mood of mind, they may appear too tame, uniform, and gentle ; for they come, — " Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards...distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of time " ; — but, " from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds... | |
 | 1845 - 888 pages
...of sadness comes o'er me, That my soul cannot resist: A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. That shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of day. Come, read to me some poem,... | |
 | 1847 - 814 pages
...sunshine with the shade.'' 1847.] Nine New Poets. Mr. Longfellow asks his I;ul y-love lo read to him. " Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards...Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of lime." This is pretty and musical, and conveys rather :i striking image: Mr. Head thus appropriates... | |
 | 1847 - 784 pages
...vibrating, like the sunshine with the shadfe." Mr. Longfellow asks his lady-love to read lo him. " Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime, "Whose distant footsteps echo Through ihe corridors of liune." This is pretty and musical, and conveys rather a striking image ; Mr. Read... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland, John Seely Hart - 1850 - 438 pages
...and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me, A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. Dome, read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles rain. Come, read to me some poem, Some simple and...from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo For, like strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts suggest Lite's endless toil and endeavour... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 470 pages
...of sadness comes o'er me, That my soul cannot resist : A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist...Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Tune. For, like strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavour... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 522 pages
...higher manifestations of true Beauty. It is, nevertheless, A feeling of sadness and longing That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. The taint of which I speak is clearly perceptible even in a poem so full of brilliancy and spirit as... | |
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I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me That my soul cannot resist: A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. 
