The Poetical Works of James Russel LowellJ. R. Osgood, 1877 - 406 pages |
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... With a full peace , that never can depart From its own steadfastness ; - a holy awe For holy things , not those which men call holy , But such as are revealed to the eyes lowly Before the face of daily mysteries ; · A IRENÉ . 3 Irené.
... With a full peace , that never can depart From its own steadfastness ; - a holy awe For holy things , not those which men call holy , But such as are revealed to the eyes lowly Before the face of daily mysteries ; · A IRENÉ . 3 Irené.
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... thing , And hath its food served up in earthen ware ; It is a thing to walk with , hand in hand , Through the every - dayness of this work- day world , Baring its tender feet to every roughness , Yet letting not one heart - beat go ...
... thing , And hath its food served up in earthen ware ; It is a thing to walk with , hand in hand , Through the every - dayness of this work- day world , Baring its tender feet to every roughness , Yet letting not one heart - beat go ...
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... things , They are not lost : The beauty which the summer time O'er thine opening spirit shed , The forest oracles ... thing in pain , And sinking restless back again , For yet no moon had risen : Its only voice a vast dumb moan , Of ...
... things , They are not lost : The beauty which the summer time O'er thine opening spirit shed , The forest oracles ... thing in pain , And sinking restless back again , For yet no moon had risen : Its only voice a vast dumb moan , Of ...
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... things was his duty , All things did sing to him to make him wise , And , with a sorrowful and conquering beauty , The soul of all looked grandly from his eyes . He gazed on all within him and without him , He watched the flowing of ...
... things was his duty , All things did sing to him to make him wise , And , with a sorrowful and conquering beauty , The soul of all looked grandly from his eyes . He gazed on all within him and without him , He watched the flowing of ...
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... things mysteries , And lures the earth's dumb spirit Up to the longing skies , I seem to hear dim whispers , And tremulous replies . The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go ; The elm - trees ' heavy shadow Weighs on the ...
... things mysteries , And lures the earth's dumb spirit Up to the longing skies , I seem to hear dim whispers , And tremulous replies . The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go ; The elm - trees ' heavy shadow Weighs on the ...
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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...