The Poetical Works of James Russell LowellHoughton, Mifflin, 1885 - 422 pages |
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... Past To the Future Hebe · The Search The Present Crisis An Indian - Summer Reverie The Growth of the Legend A Contrast • Extreme Unction The Oak . Ambrose Above and Below The Captive The Birch - Tree An Interview with Miles Standish On ...
... Past To the Future Hebe · The Search The Present Crisis An Indian - Summer Reverie The Growth of the Legend A Contrast • Extreme Unction The Oak . Ambrose Above and Below The Captive The Birch - Tree An Interview with Miles Standish On ...
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... past Rises within her heart again , And sunshine from her childhood cast Makes summer of the icy rain . Enhaloed by a mild , warm glow , she hears old footsteps wandering slow From all humanity apart , Through the lone chambers of the ...
... past Rises within her heart again , And sunshine from her childhood cast Makes summer of the icy rain . Enhaloed by a mild , warm glow , she hears old footsteps wandering slow From all humanity apart , Through the lone chambers of the ...
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... past ; A heritage , it seems to me , Well worth a life to hold in fee . THE ROSE : A BALLAD . I. IN his tower sat the poet Gazing on the roaring sea , " Take this rose , " he sighed , " and throw it Where there ' s none that loveth me ...
... past ; A heritage , it seems to me , Well worth a life to hold in fee . THE ROSE : A BALLAD . I. IN his tower sat the poet Gazing on the roaring sea , " Take this rose , " he sighed , " and throw it Where there ' s none that loveth me ...
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... past , All its openness and truth , Ever fresh and green in thee As the moss is in the sea . Thy little heart , that hath with love Grown colored like the sky above , On which thou lookest ever , Can it know All the woe - Of hope for ...
... past , All its openness and truth , Ever fresh and green in thee As the moss is in the sea . Thy little heart , that hath with love Grown colored like the sky above , On which thou lookest ever , Can it know All the woe - Of hope for ...
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... Past is wise alone , For Yesterday knows nothing of the Best , And thou shalt love it only as the nest Whence glory - winged things to Heaven have flown : To the great Soul alone are all things known ; Present and future are to her as past ...
... Past is wise alone , For Yesterday knows nothing of the Best , And thou shalt love it only as the nest Whence glory - winged things to Heaven have flown : To the great Soul alone are all things known ; Present and future are to her as past ...
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Page 104 - ... our eyes, but we cannot help knowing That skies are clear and grass is growing; The breeze comes whispering in our ear That dandelions are blossoming near, That maize has sprouted, that streams are flowing, That the river is bluer than the sky, That the robin is plastering his house hard by; And if the breeze kept the good news back, For other couriers we should not lack; We could guess it all by yon heifer's lowing, — And hark! how clear bold chanticleer, Warmed with the new wine of the year,...
Page 64 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right.1 And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
Page 42 - GOD sends his teachers unto every age, To every clime, and every race of men, With revelations fitted to their growth And shape of mind, nor gives the realm of Truth Into the selfish rule of one sole race...
Page 109 - Lo, it is I, be not afraid! In many climes, without avail, Thou hast spent thy life for the Holy Grail; Behold, it is here, — this cup which thou Didst fill at the streamlet for me but now; This crust is my body broken for thee, This water His blood that died on the tree; The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need...
Page 382 - In that sure-footed mind's unfaltering skill, And supple-tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind, Thrusting to thin air o'er our cloudy bars, A sea-mark now, now lost in vapors blind; Broad prairie rather, genial, level-lined, Fruitful and friendly for all human kind, Yet also nigh to Heaven and loved of loftiest stars.
Page 88 - The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment, Before the Present poor and bare Can make its sneering comment. Still, through our paltry stir and strife, Glows down the wished Ideal, And longing moulds in clay what Life Carves in the marble Real ; To let the new life in, we know, Desire must ope the portal ; — Perhaps the longing to be so Helps make the soul immortal.
Page 5 - Yet in herself she dwelleth not, Although no home were half so fair ; No simplest duty is forgot, Life hath no dim and lowly spot That doth not in her sunshine share. She doeth little kindnesses, Which most leave undone, or despise ; For naught that sets one heart at ease, And giveth happiness or peace, Is low-esteemed in her eyes.
Page 381 - Ah, there is something here Unfathomed by the cynic's sneer, Something that gives our feeble light A high immunity from Night, Something that leaps life's narrow bars To claim its birthright with the hosts of heaven ; A seed of sunshine that can leaven Our earthly dulness with the beams of stars, And glorify our clay With light from fountains elder than the Day...
Page 52 - Is true freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake, And with leathern hearts forget That we owe mankind a debt ? No ! true freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And with heart and hand to be Earnest to make others free...
Page 172 - s ben true to one party, — an' thet is himself ; — . So John P. Robinson he Sez he shall vote fer Gineral C. Gineral C. he goes in fer the war ; He don't vally principle more 'n an old cud ; Wut did God make us raytional creeturs fer, But glory an' gunpowder, plunder an