The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell LowellHoughton, Mifflin, 1896 - 492 pages The present Cambridge Edition of Mr. Lowell's poems contains, substantially in the order established by the author, the poems included by him not long before his death in the definitive Riverside Edition of his writings, and in addition the small group contained in the Last Poems, collected by his literary executor, Mr. Charles Eliot Norton. - Publisher's note. |
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... words which strove to set it before the eyes of one who had never seen it . " ' T is --- a pleasant old house , just ... Word for Winter , " in many of his poems , such as " An Indian - Summer Reverie , " " To the Dandelion , " " Under ...
... words which strove to set it before the eyes of one who had never seen it . " ' T is --- a pleasant old house , just ... Word for Winter , " in many of his poems , such as " An Indian - Summer Reverie , " " To the Dandelion , " " Under ...
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... words of honest scorn and warning . What impresses one especially in reading this address , remembering the ... word , which is the finest outcome of a strong political faith . It must have been galling to Lowell to find himself ...
... words of honest scorn and warning . What impresses one especially in reading this address , remembering the ... word , which is the finest outcome of a strong political faith . It must have been galling to Lowell to find himself ...
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... word Nevermore ! The stars of those two gentle eyes Will shine no more on earth ; Quenched are the hopes that had their birth , As we watched them slowly rise , Stars of a mother's fate ; And she would read them o'er and o'er ...
... word Nevermore ! The stars of those two gentle eyes Will shine no more on earth ; Quenched are the hopes that had their birth , As we watched them slowly rise , Stars of a mother's fate ; And she would read them o'er and o'er ...
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... word - Nevermore ! The tongue that scarce had learned to claim An entrance to a mother's heart By that dear talisman , a mother's name , Sleeps all forgetful of its art ! I loved to see the infant soul ( How mighty in the weakness Of ...
... word - Nevermore ! The tongue that scarce had learned to claim An entrance to a mother's heart By that dear talisman , a mother's name , Sleeps all forgetful of its art ! I loved to see the infant soul ( How mighty in the weakness Of ...
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... word and feeling so to live As to make earth next heaven ; and her heart Herein doth show its most exceeding worth , That , bearing in our frailty her just part , She hath not shrunk from evils of this life , But hath gone calmly forth ...
... word and feeling so to live As to make earth next heaven ; and her heart Herein doth show its most exceeding worth , That , bearing in our frailty her just part , She hath not shrunk from evils of this life , But hath gone calmly forth ...
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Page 68 - Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 'tis prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied.
Page 67 - Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,— Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Page 67 - 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 106 - Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie ; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not. Over our manhood bend the skies ; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies ; With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its benedicite; And to our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea.
Page 219 - A fireplace filled the room's one side With half a cord o' wood in — There warn't no stoves (tell comfort died) To bake ye to a puddin'. The wa'nut logs shot sparkles out Towards the pootiest, bless her, An' leetle flames danced all about The chiny on the dresser.
Page 347 - Be proud! for she is saved, and all have helped to save her! She that lifts up the manhood of the poor, She of the open soul and open door, With room about her hearth for all mankind!
Page 220 - An' yit she gin her cheer a jerk Ez though she wished him furder, An' on her apples kep' to work, Parin
Page 111 - This water his blood that died on the tree; The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need ; Not what we give, but what we share, For the gift without the giver is bare ; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
Page 295 - Greatly begin ! though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime, — Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
Page 107 - Tis enough for us now that the leaves are green; We sit in the warm shade and feel right well How the sap creeps up and the blossoms swell; We may shut our eyes, but we cannot help knowing That skies are clear and grass is growing...