Author: Alexander McLachlan
Cites
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1)
- IN: The Poetical Works of Alexander McLachlan (1900) Poetry, NULL
EPIGRAPH: 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, thro' long days of labor,
And nights devoid of ease,
Still heard in his soul the music
Of wonderful melodies.
FROM: The Day is Done, (1844), Poem, US