 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.  Days with Uncle Jack - Page 416by John Walter Davis - 1914Full view - About this book
 | Quotations - 1861 - 356 pages
...souls, Outlive the newest stars. EMERSON. Come read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe 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 Wadsworth Longfellow - 1863 - 438 pages
...sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. Come, read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish...Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavour ; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his... | |
 | James Nicholson - 1863 - 246 pages
...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,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 712 pages
...sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. Come, read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish...Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and "endeavour; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his... | |
 | Frederick Hinde - 1864 - 150 pages
...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... | |
 | Echoes - 1865 - 244 pages
...sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. Come, read to me some poem, Some simple, heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish...Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavour; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from the heart... | |
 | John Dennis - Pastoral poetry, English - 1865 - 344 pages
...over him at the evening hour, adds : — " Come read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish...Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavour ; And to-night I long for rest. " Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his... | |
 | John Dennis - Pastoral poetry, English - 1865 - 340 pages
...simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of clay. " Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards...Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavour ; And to-night I long for rest. " Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1865 - 388 pages
...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 footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time. For, like strains of martial... | |
 | 1865 - 592 pages
...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... | |
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