{"id":8287,"date":"2022-06-16T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=8287"},"modified":"2022-06-16T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T05:00:00","slug":"the-day-is-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-day-is-done\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day is Done"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the Newark Evening Star, June 16, 1914<\/a>. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The day is done, and the darkness
    Falls from the wings of Night,
As a feather is wafted downward
    From an eagle\u2019s flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I see the lights of the village
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Gleam through the rain and the mist,
And a feeling of sadness comes o’er me
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0That my soul cannot resist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A feeling of sadness and longing,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0That is not akin to pain,
And resembles sorrow only
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0As the mist resembles the rain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Come, read to me some poem,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Some simple and heartfelt lay,
That shall soothe this restless feeling,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And banish the thoughts of day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not from the grand old masters,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Not from the bards sublime,
Whose distant footsteps echo
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Through the corridors of Time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For, like strains of martial music,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Their mighty thoughts suggest
Life’s endless toil and endeavor;
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And tonight I long to rest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read from some humble poet,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Whose songs gushed from his heart,
As showers from the clouds of summer,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Or tears from the eyelids start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who, through long days of labor,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And nights devoid of ease,
Still heard in his soul the music
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Of wonderful melodies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such songs have power to quiet
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The restless pulse of care,
And come like the benediction
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0That follows after prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then read from the treasured volume
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The poem of thy choice,
And lend to the rhymes of the poet
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The beauty of thy voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the night shall be filled with music,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And the cares, that infest the day,
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And as silently steal away. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Newark Evening Star, June 16, 1914. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The day is done, and the darkness    Falls from the wings of Night,As a feather is wafted downward    From an eagle\u2019s flight. I see the lights of the village\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Gleam through the rain and the mist,And a feeling of sadness comes o’er me\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0That my soul cannot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3],"tags":[164],"class_list":["post-8287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newark-evening-star","category-newspapers","tag-henry-wadsworth-longfellow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}