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" 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 through long days of labor, And nights devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the music Of wonderful melodies. "
The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine - Page 165
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The Fourth Reader

William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1878 - 286 pages
...heartfelt lay, Not from the grand old masters', Not from the bards sublime'. Read from some humbled poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart\ As showers"...clouds of summer, Or tears' from the eyelids" start." A fine example of the positive and negative slides is seen in these beautiful words of Dickens, after...
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Poetical Works

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 442 pages
...strains of martial music, 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, Who, through long days of labor, And nights devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the music Of wonderful...
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Life and Poems

Edgar Allan Poe - 1879 - 336 pages
...strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavor ; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose...nights devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the music Of wonderful melodies. Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like...
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The General Baptist repository, and Missionary observer [afterw.] The ...

1879 - 506 pages
...strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavour, And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose...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...
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Literary Criticism: Pope to Croce

Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 pages
...strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavor; And tonight I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose...nights devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the music Of wonderful melodies. Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like...
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Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe - 1975 - 1042 pages
...strains of martial music, 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 bls heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or trars from the eyelids start; Who through long...
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Sword Scrapbook

1980 - 236 pages
...strains of martial music, The* mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavor; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet. Whose...nights devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the music Of wonderful melodies. Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like...
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Essays and Reviews

Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson - 1984 - 1572 pages
...strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavour; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose...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...
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Selected Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1988 - 442 pages
...strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavor; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose...nights devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the music Of wonderful melodies. Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like...
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The Columbia Literary History of the United States

Emory Elliott - 1988 - 1312 pages
...old masters. Not from the bards sublime. Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from...nights devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the music Of wonderful melodies. Such unabashed sentiment and soft-minded engagement with the problems...
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