| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1845 - 534 pages
...; — but, " from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start ; " Who,...come like the benediction That follows after prayer." 42* 2. — Conversations on some of the Old Poets. By JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. Cambridge : John Owen.... | |
| 1857 - 780 pages
...from the eyelids start. Who, through long days of Iul<our, And nights devoid of ease, Still heard iu his soul the music Of wonderful melodies. Such songs...come like the benediction That follows after prayer. But never, since the day she rejected his offer, had he spoken of love to her again. If, thought le,... | |
| 1882 - 760 pages
...of time. Read from some humkler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears 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... | |
| 1876 - 736 pages
...in vain be sought for among the others. For them — " Suck song* hav« power to quiet Ttie rettless pulse of care, And come like the benediction, That follows after prayer ; And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day, Shall fold their tents... | |
| 1850 - 464 pages
...showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start ; Who, through long days of labour, And nights devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul...benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasur'd volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice.... | |
| 1870 - 726 pages
...for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gush from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start. Who through long days of labour, And nights devoid of ease, Still heard on his soul the music Of wonderlul melodies. Such songs... | |
| 1853 - 448 pages
...choristers began to sing a sweet hymn. We may truly say that he was a man, " Who through long days of lahor, And nights devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the music Of wonderful melodies." In Luther, the earthly elements were strong, but they were subjected to the lawful dominion of reason... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1845 - 530 pages
...j — but, " from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start ; " Who,...come like the benediction That follows after prayer." 42* 2. — Conversations on some of the Old Poets. By JAMES RUSSELL LOwELL. Cambridge : John Owen.... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1846 - 130 pages
...for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start ; Who,...restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction 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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