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
| 1861 - 356 Seiten
...displaced By lapses or by wars. But. for the love of happy souls, Outlive the newest stars. EMERSON. Come read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt...this restless feeling And banish the thoughts of day. LONGFELLOW. A drainlcss renown Of light is Poesy: 'Tis the supreme of power: The might half slumbering... | |
| Henry Howe - 1861 - 844 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 heart-felt lay, That shall soothe this restless fesling, And banish the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the hards sublime,... | |
| James Nicholson - 1863 - 246 Seiten
...NOTICE BY THE REV. ALEXR. MACLEOD, Minteterof John Street United Presbyterian Church, Glasgow. " Ktrt from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime....distant footsteps 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,... | |
| Frederick Hinde - 1864 - 150 Seiten
...And yet, this deathless trio — three such redoubted names as these • the grand old masters," • the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time," — to what a towering eminence have they culminated ! Homer, not only the poet, who, transcendently... | |
| John Dennis - 1865 - 340 Seiten
...describing the sense of sadness " not akin to pain," which comes over him at the evening hour, adds : — " Come read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt...this restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of clay. " Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1865 - 388 Seiten
...sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resemhles sorrow only As the mist resemhles the rain. Come, read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt...lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling, And hanish the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the hards suhlime, Whose distant... | |
| 1865 - 592 Seiten
...Each, if he cannot write great things with the ink of life, " Not like the grand old masters, Not like the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of time;" if he cannot do this, he can still write " some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay," some life, that... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1866 - 710 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...strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts suggest Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1866 - 300 Seiten
...Come, read to me some poem, Some simple aud heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling, Aud banish the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old...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,... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1859 - 302 Seiten
...That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As tho mist resembles the rain . Come, read to mo some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish tho thoughts of day. Not from the grand old musters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps... | |
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