 | Garland - 1872 - 170 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 732 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... | |
 | James D. McCabe - 1872 - 682 pages
...scarcely a library, however humble, but can boast a wellworn volume of his tender songs, — songs that "Have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And...come like the benediction That follows after prayer." He was born in the city of Portland, Maine,, on the 27th of February, 1807, and was the son of the... | |
 | 1872 - 710 pages
...simple and heartfelt lay That shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of day. Snch 7. ths benediction That follows after prayer. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares... | |
 | George Walter Baynham - 1873 - 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. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty... | |
 | William Poole Balfern - 1873 - 106 pages
...the true poetic spirit, and some of the verses are full of beautiful similes, fancies, and figures. ' Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse...like the benediction « That follows after prayer.' We sincerely and heartily thank Mr. Balfern for the volume which this week issues from the press.—West... | |
 | Edward Henry Bickersteth (bp. of Exeter) - 1874 - 764 pages
...And then the poem closes with the effect which these genuine lays of the soul will produce : — " Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse...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... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 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... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1875 - 400 pages
...from the eyelids start ; Who through long days of labour, A nd 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... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1869 - 290 pages
...songs gushed from his heart, 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... | |
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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. 
