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. The Poet's Praise: From Homer to Swinburne - Seite 20von Estelle Davenport Adams - 1894 - 407 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1867 - 526 Seiten
...many of his longer, and loftier imaginative nights, because they find an echo in every human heart. " Come read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt...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 Seiten
...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...Life's endless toil and endeavour ; And to-night I lon.j for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the... | |
| John Swett - 1868 - 246 Seiten
...the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me, That my soul cannot resist. Come, read to me eome poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe...the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, Nut from the bards sublime, "Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time. For like strains... | |
| John Swett - 1867 - 252 Seiten
...through the rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me, That my soul cannot resist. Come, read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe thla restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the... | |
| 1868 - 846 Seiten
...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... | |
| 1907 - 1184 Seiten
...far away from the land he loved so well, I have sought for sympathy in happiness and in sorrow — ' Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards...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... | |
| Asahel Clark Kendrick - 1871 - 484 Seiten
...sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. Come, read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt...Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavor; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart,... | |
| 1871 - 476 Seiten
...longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. Come,read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That...Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavor ; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart,... | |
| 1871 - 314 Seiten
...sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. Come, read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards...Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavor ; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart,... | |
| 1872 - 710 Seiten
...look for pain ; for he is of an evil stock, and will grieve thec. MF Tuppei: 2782. SOTOS, Quieting. Snch songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like ths benediction That follows... | |
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