 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....  Poems - Page 78by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853Full view - About this book
 | Watts Phillips - 1860 - 328 pages
...poetry," which is so rapidly passing away, — it was the patriotic lay of some bygone and nameless poet — " Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer — As tears from the eyelids start." The Baron — who, all aristocratic as he was Breton to the core... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Gilbert - 1860 - 448 pages
...old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whoso distant footsteps eeho Through the corridors of Titno. For, like strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil nnd endeavour ; And to-night I long for rest. Rrud from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1861 - 912 pages
...old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time. For, like strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts...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. Such songs... | |
 | William Landels - 1861 - 280 pages
...footsteps echo Down the corridors of time. " Lays, too, from some humbler poet, Whose songs gusted from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer,...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 With such... | |
 | Stephen Frederick Williams - 1862 - 328 pages
...masters, Lays from the bards sublime; Whose distant footsteps echo Down the corridors of time. Lays, too, from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his...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." We read... | |
 | John G. Smith - 1862 - 248 pages
.... f POEMS. r. THE TWA MICE, MISCELLANEOUS POEMS AND SONGS. JOHN G. SMITH, A M. " Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from...clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start." Longfellow. KELSO: FEINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, BY R. STKWART, FOOT OF HOHSE MARKET. MDCCCLXII. r TO THE... | |
 | James Nicholson - 1863 - 246 pages
...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, Or tears from the eyelids start ; " Who. through lonp days of labour, And iiiahts devoid of ease, Still heard in 1m soul the music Of wonderful melodiea."... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 712 pages
...old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time. For, like strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts...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. Such songs... | |
 | John Dennis - 1865 - 340 pages
...masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of time. " For like strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts...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. " Such... | |
 | Echoes - 1865 - 244 pages
...old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time ; For, like strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts...Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from the heart As showers from the clouds of summer Or tears from the eyelids start ; Who, through long... | |
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