The Vision of Sir Launfal, and Other PoemsMifflin, 1905 - 113 pages A narrative poem about a proud medieval knight who spends his life seeking abroad for the Holy Grail in vain, only to find it at home when he humbly gives a crust of bread and cup of water to a leper. |
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... was sent to Concord for his rustication , and so passed a few weeks of his youth amongst scenes dear to every lover of American letters . ELMWOOD , CAMBRIDGE III FIRST VENTURE After his graduation he vi SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF.
... was sent to Concord for his rustication , and so passed a few weeks of his youth amongst scenes dear to every lover of American letters . ELMWOOD , CAMBRIDGE III FIRST VENTURE After his graduation he vi SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF.
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... passed not again through the gate of birth , But made himself known to the children of earth . Then said the chief priests , and rulers , and kings , 5 " Behold , now , the Giver of all good things ; Go to , let us welcome with pomp and ...
... passed not again through the gate of birth , But made himself known to the children of earth . Then said the chief priests , and rulers , and kings , 5 " Behold , now , the Giver of all good things ; Go to , let us welcome with pomp and ...
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... passed by . 35 Careless seems the great Avenger ; history's pages but record One death - grapple in the darkness ' twixt old systems and the Word ; Truth forever on the scaffold , Wrong forever on the throne , - Yet that scaffold sways ...
... passed by . 35 Careless seems the great Avenger ; history's pages but record One death - grapple in the darkness ' twixt old systems and the Word ; Truth forever on the scaffold , Wrong forever on the throne , - Yet that scaffold sways ...
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James Russell Lowell. The cock's shrill trump that tells of scattered corn , Passed breezily on by all his flapping mates , 30 Faint and more faint , from barn to barn is borne , Southward , perhaps to far Magellan's Straits ; Dimly I ...
James Russell Lowell. The cock's shrill trump that tells of scattered corn , Passed breezily on by all his flapping mates , 30 Faint and more faint , from barn to barn is borne , Southward , perhaps to far Magellan's Straits ; Dimly I ...
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James Russell Lowell. Feeling his soul spring up divinely tall , Touched but in passing by her mantle - hem . Come back , then , noble pride , for ' t is her dower ! How could poet ever tower , If his passions , hopes , and fears , If ...
James Russell Lowell. Feeling his soul spring up divinely tall , Touched but in passing by her mantle - hem . Come back , then , noble pride , for ' t is her dower ! How could poet ever tower , If his passions , hopes , and fears , If ...
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Page 26 - 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; And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
Page 31 - New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Page 28 - 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 66 - Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes; These all' are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame. The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American.
Page 3 - Every clod feels a stir of might, An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers...
Page 22 - MEN ! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave ? If ye do not feel the chain, When it works a brother's pain, Are ye not base slaves indeed, Slaves unworthy to be freed...
Page 15 - 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; 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,...
Page 8 - But he who gives but a slender mite, And gives to that which is out of sight, That thread of the all-sustaining Beauty Which runs through all and doth all unite, — The hand cannot clasp the whole of his alms, The heart outstretches its eager palms, For a god goes with it and makes it store To the soul that was starving in darkness before.
Page 4 - Now is the high-tide of the year, And whatever of life hath ebbed away Comes flooding back with a ripply cheer, Into every bare inlet and creek and bay; Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it, We are happy now because God wills it...
Page 26 - ... 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, And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. Hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose party thou...