 And tonight I long 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 through long days of labor, And nights devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the...  Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Page 87by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1880 - 417 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1850 - 464 pages
...pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasur'd volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme...their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. — Longfellow. LITERATURE. THE HOUR CIRCLE. (Egan, St. Martin' tlane.) — Some months ago,... | |
 | 1845 - 888 pages
...Btart: And night s devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the music Who through long days of labor, Of wonderful melodies. Such songs have power to quiet...their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. How sweet, how inexpressibly beautiful, are the following tender lines from the tender heart... | |
 | 1891 - 672 pages
...he knew. Emenon, ' The Problem.' " Old father antic, the law." Shakspeare, 1 King Henry IV.,' I. ii. And the night shall be filled with music, And the...their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. Longfellow, ' The Day is Done.' Blessed are the horny hands of toil. Lowell, ' A Glance Bebind... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...For, like strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts suggest Lite's endless toil and endeavour ; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler...their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. SEAWEED. WHEN descends on the Atlantic The gigantic Storm-wind of the equinox, Landward in his... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell - 1850 - 642 pages
...sadness and longing That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the miits resemble the rain And the night shall be filled with music, And the...their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal aaay. Now these lines are not to be scanned. They are referable to no true principles of rhythm. The... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...summer, Or tears from the eyelids start ; Who, through long days of labour, And nights devoid of ease, Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse...the Arabs, And as silently steal away. AFTERNOON IN FEBRUAEY. THE day is ending, The night is descending ; The marsh is frozen, The river dead. Through... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 256 pages
...thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be tilled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall...marsh is frozen, The river dead. Through clouds like iishes, The red sun flashes On village windows That glimmer red. " The snow recommences ; The buried... | |
 | 1852 - 528 pages
...which in happiness of expression and'sweetness will bear comparison with any in the volume : — • " And the night shall be filled with music ; And the...their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away." " The Slave's Dream " will also prove a favourite with most readers : it is written with more... | |
 | George William Curtis - 1852 - 330 pages
...the women lay in voluptuous repose, crusted with jewels and completing the Paradise. > IV. Inoria. " The night shall be filled with music, And the cares...their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away." SUCH beautiful women we saw. Not, of course, the Muslim wives, but Hebrews, whose beauty is... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 522 pages
...shall present for your consideration, than b^ the citation of the Proem to Mr. Longfellow's'" Waif : THE day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings...their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. With no great range of imagination, these lines have been justly admired for their delicacy of... | |
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