 | 1861 - 356 pages
...renown Of light is Poesy: 'Tis the supreme of power: The might half slumbering on its own right arm. Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And como like the benediction That follows after prayer. LONGFELLOW. The land of song within thee lies,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1862 - 546 pages
...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...to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1863 - 438 pages
...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. Such songs...come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet And the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 712 pages
...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...come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhymo of the poet The beauty... | |
 | Echoes, A. F. - 1865 - 244 pages
...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...come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty... | |
 | John Dennis - 1865 - 344 pages
...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...come like the benediction That follows after prayer." TALBOT. An apt though very familiar quotation. Truly a simple poem like this may be loved as much and... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1865 - 388 pages
...from the eyelids start ; Who, through long days of lahour, And nights devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the music Of wonderful melodies. Such songs...quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the henediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice,... | |
 | William Garden Blaikie - 1865 - 288 pages
...glorious company of the apostles, the goodly fellowship of the prophets, the noble army of martyrs ?"— " Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse...come like the benediction That follows after prayer," Do not say, "These are mere dreams of fancy. There is too much knocking about in the workman's house... | |
 | William Garden Blaikie - 1865 - 310 pages
...company of the apostles, the goodly fellowship of the prophets, the noble army of martyrs ?" — " Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse...come like the benediction That follows after prayer." Do not say, "These are mere dreams of fancy. There is too much knocking about in the workman's house... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1859 - 302 pages
...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 iu his soul...come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty... | |
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And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. 
