Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start; Who, through long days of labor And nights devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the music Of wonderful melodies.... Best Things from Best Authors... - Side 361905Fuld visning - Om denne bog
| 1857 - 780 sider
...as she read with her clear, musical voice some well -remembered lay of Some humble poet, Whose song? gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or (ears from the eyelids start. Who, through long days of Iul<our, And nights devoid of ease, Still heard... | |
| 1850 - 464 sider
...suggest Life's endless toil and endeavour ; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from...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... | |
| 1870 - 726 sider
...toil and endeavours — And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gush from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer,...tears from the eyelids start. Who through long days of labour, And nights devoid of ease, Still heard on his soul the music Of wonderlul melodies. Such songs... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1845 - 530 sider
...sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of time " j — but, " from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from...come like the benediction That follows after prayer." 42* 2. — Conversations on some of the Old Poets. By JAMES RUSSELL LOwELL. Cambridge : John Owen.... | |
| 1883 - 798 sider
...memories and hearts, then shall we realise what he, who hath joined the poets of the past, once wrote. " Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse...come like the benediction That follows after prayer. " A Temperance Lecturer was once asked, " What shall we do with the grain now used in making whiskey... | |
| 1907 - 516 sider
...suggest Life's endless toil and endeavour, And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet Whose songs gushed from his heart As showers from...clouds of summer Or tears from the eyelids start. — Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follow?... | |
| 1845 - 888 sider
...suggest Life's endless toil and endeavour; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids Btart: And night s devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the music Who through long days of labor,... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1845 - 540 sider
...sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of time " ; — but, " from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or team from the eyelids start ; " Who, through long days of labor, And nights devoid of ease, Still beard... | |
| 1847 - 540 sider
...poetry shall charm mankind, His flowing numbers will admirers find. 33. Whose song gush'd from his beart As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start. HW LONGFELLOW. POETRY. — (See POET.) POLITENESS. — (See ETIQUETTE.) POLITICS. 1. A politician,... | |
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