 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.  Eliza Cook's journal - Page 323Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | John Dennis - 1865 - 340 pages
...comes 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 the thoughts of clay. " Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1866 - 710 pages
...resembles 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...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 pages
...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 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1867 - 526 pages
...because they find an echo in every human heart. " Come read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling, And...distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of time. Head from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer,... | |
 | John Swett - 1867 - 252 pages
...soul cannot resist. Come, read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe thla restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of day....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,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1868 - 410 pages
...restless feeling, And hanish the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the hards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the...Life's endless toil and endeavour ; And to-night I lon.j for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the... | |
 | John Swett - 1868 - 246 pages
...sadness comes o'er me, That my soul cannot resist. Come, read to me eome poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling, And...the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, Nut from the bards sublime, "Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time. For like strains... | |
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