The Poetical Works of James Russel LowellJ. R. Osgood, 1877 - 406 pages |
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... dream ; The wind scarce shaketh down the dew , The green grass floweth like a stream Into the ocean's blue ; Listen ! O , listen ! Here is a gush of many streams , A song of many birds , And every wish and longing seems Lulled to a ...
... dream ; The wind scarce shaketh down the dew , The green grass floweth like a stream Into the ocean's blue ; Listen ! O , listen ! Here is a gush of many streams , A song of many birds , And every wish and longing seems Lulled to a ...
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... dream of bliss in store . Thou canst not see a shade in life ; With sunward instinct thou dost rise , And , leaving clouds below at strife , Gazest undazzled at the skies , With all their blazing splendors rife , A songful lark with ...
... dream of bliss in store . Thou canst not see a shade in life ; With sunward instinct thou dost rise , And , leaving clouds below at strife , Gazest undazzled at the skies , With all their blazing splendors rife , A songful lark with ...
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... dreaming cock doth crow . All things look strange and mystic , The very bushes swell And take wild shapes and motions , As if beneath a spell , They seem not the same lilacs From childhood known so well . The snow of deepest silence O ...
... dreaming cock doth crow . All things look strange and mystic , The very bushes swell And take wild shapes and motions , As if beneath a spell , They seem not the same lilacs From childhood known so well . The snow of deepest silence O ...
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... dream ! O river , dim with distance , Flow thus forever by , A part of my existence Within your heart doth lie ! O stars , ye saw our meeting , Two beings and one soul , Two hearts so madly beating To mingle and be whole ! O happy night ...
... dream ! O river , dim with distance , Flow thus forever by , A part of my existence Within your heart doth lie ! O stars , ye saw our meeting , Two beings and one soul , Two hearts so madly beating To mingle and be whole ! O happy night ...
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Page 68 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side...
Page 106 - 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 106 - 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, Tells all in his lusty crowing!
Page 68 - 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 107 - 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 106 - Long, sparkling aisles of steel-stemmed trees Bending to counterfeit a breeze; Sometimes the roof no fretwork knew But silvery mosses that downward grew; Sometimes it was carved in sharp relief With quaint arabesques...
Page 68 - ... 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...
Page 227 - An' she looked full ez rosy agin Ez the apples she was peelin'. 'Twas kin' o' kingdom-come to look On sech a blessed cretur, A dogrose blushin' to a brook Ain't modester nor sweeter. He was six foot o' man, A 1, Clear grit an' human natur' ; None couldn't quicker pitch a ton Nor dror a furrer straighter.
Page 106 - The little birds sang as if it were The one day of summer in all the year; And the very leaves seemed to sing on the trees; The castle alone in the landscape lay Like an outpost of winter, dull and gray...
Page 146 - There is Lowell, who's striving Parnassus to climb With a whole bale of isms tied together with rhyme, He might get on alone, spite of brambles and boulders, But he can't with that bundle he has on his shoulders, The top of the hill he will ne'er come nigh reaching Till he learns the distinction 'twixt singing and preaching...