...is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. 336 THE SCHOOLMASTER. That shall soothe this restless feeling And banish the thoughts of day. Kot from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant foot-steps echo Through the...

...SOPHOCLES. And yet this deathless trio — three such redoubted names as these, the grand old masters," the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time," to what a towering eminence have they culminated HOMER, not only the Poet, who, transcendently " triumphant...

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...to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. Come, read to me some poem, Some simple and heart-felt lay, That shall soothe this...Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavor; And to-night I long for rest. Whose songs gushed from his heart, As show'rs from the clouds...

...to him, in delicious numbers, all the loftiest conceptions of genius, from " The grand old masters, The bards sublime ; Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of time." Not only as conservators of the past, are books to be prized; they are also an ever-enduring source...

...Longfellow is deservedly one of the most appreciated of modern minstrels. COME read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless...toil and endeavour, And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer,...

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...sadness and longing. That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only Come, rend to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless...the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whoso distant footsteps eeho Through the corridors of Titno. For, like strains of martial music, Their...

...to pain, And 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...toil and endeavour ; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart. As showers from the clouds of summer,...

...But. for the love of happy souls, Outlive the newest stars. EMERSON. Come read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling And banish the thoughts of day. LONGFELLOW. A drainlcss renown Of light is Poesy: 'Tis the supreme of power: The might half slumbering...