The Vision of Sir Launfal: And Other PoemsC.E. Merrill Company, 1908 - 172 pages |
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... letters . To W. D. Howells he wrote regretfully of the time and energy given to teach- ing , and of his conviction that he would have been a better poet if he " had not estranged the muse by donning a professor's gown . " But a good ...
... letters . To W. D. Howells he wrote regretfully of the time and energy given to teach- ing , and of his conviction that he would have been a better poet if he " had not estranged the muse by donning a professor's gown . " But a good ...
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... Letters to personal friends , which rank with the finest literary letters ever printed and must always be regarded as an important part of his prose works . It was a gracious boon of providence that Lowell was permitted to spend his ...
... Letters to personal friends , which rank with the finest literary letters ever printed and must always be regarded as an important part of his prose works . It was a gracious boon of providence that Lowell was permitted to spend his ...
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... letters . His sympathetic interest , always outflowing toward concrete humanity , was a quality— " With such large range as from the ale - house bench Can reach the stars and be with both at home . " With marvelous versatility and equal ...
... letters . His sympathetic interest , always outflowing toward concrete humanity , was a quality— " With such large range as from the ale - house bench Can reach the stars and be with both at home . " With marvelous versatility and equal ...
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... Letters are delicious reading because he put into them " good wholesome nonsense , as he says , " keeping my seriousness to bore myself with . " " " But this sparkling and overflowing humor never ob- scures the deep seriousness that is ...
... Letters are delicious reading because he put into them " good wholesome nonsense , as he says , " keeping my seriousness to bore myself with . " " " But this sparkling and overflowing humor never ob- scures the deep seriousness that is ...
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... letter of the second series ; in another , such a lyric gem as The Fountain ; in another , The First Snow - Fall and After the Burial ; in another , again , the noble Harvard Commemoration Ode . . . . He had plainly a most defective ear ...
... letter of the second series ; in another , such a lyric gem as The Fountain ; in another , The First Snow - Fall and After the Burial ; in another , again , the noble Harvard Commemoration Ode . . . . He had plainly a most defective ear ...
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VISION OF SIR LAUNFAL James Russell 1819-1891 Lowell,Frank Herbert 1858 Palmer No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 43 - And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten ; 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 43 - The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings; He sings to the wide world and she to her nest, — In the nice ear of Nature which song is the best...
Page 44 - 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. 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...
Page 43 - s never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace : The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives ; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart...
Page 44 - 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; No matter how barren the past may have been, "T is enough for us now that the leaves are green...
Page 55 - I behold in thee An image of Him who died on the tree; Thou also hast had thy crown of thorns, Thou also hast had the world's buffets and scorns, And to thy life were not denied The wounds in the hands and feet and side: Mild Mary's Son, acknowledge me; Behold, through him, I give to Thee...
Page 105 - 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 44 - 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.
Page 167 - And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
Page 110 - New occasions teach new duties ; time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth; I.