Prometheus (James Russell Lowell Poems)
One after one the stars have risen and set,Sparkling upon the hoarfrost on my chain:The Bear, that prowled all night ...
One after one the stars have risen and set,Sparkling upon the hoarfrost on my chain:The Bear, that prowled all night ...
While ripening corn grew thick and deep,And here and there men stood to reap,One morn I put my heart to ...
What know we of the world immenseBeyond the narrow ring of sense?What should we know, who lounge aboutThe house we ...
The bullet in the marble breast, the gash upon the brow, You raised us on the bloody planks with wild and ...
There are fields of martial glory Where the slain are ne'er bemoaned; There are victories though silent, Where grim monarchs are dethroned; There are ...
Favour'd of heav'n, awhile my speech attend:On brighter visions now unclose thine eyes,Again shall Europe's realms before thee rise.Of this ...
There are who triumph in a losing cause,Who can put on defeat, as 'twere a wreathUnwithering in the adverse popular ...
An alarm is sounding through the land That tells of a stronger foe Than that which marched on Lexington, To strike a fatal ...
Black queen of beauty, thou hast given color to the world!Among other women thou art royal and the fairest!Like the ...
THOUGH dowered with instincts keen and high,With burning thoughts that wooed the light,The scornful world hath passed him by,And left ...
Teacher sublime, great, grand and free!My spirit loves and honours thee,Who taught that all religion ran,In love to God, and ...
Ah me! what mighty perils waitThe man who meddles with a state,Whether to strengthen, or oppose!False are his friends, and ...
I Apollo! Apollo! Apollo!II Where hast thou, Apollo, gone? I have wandered on and on, Through the shaggy Dorian gorges, ...
Of Guinevere from Arthur separate,And separate from Launcelot and the world,And shielded in the convent with her sin,As one draws ...
THE Hours passed by, a fleet, confused crowd; With wafture of blown garments bright as fire, Light, light of foot ...
There sat two glasses, filled to the brim, On a rich man's table, rim to rim. One was ruddy and ...
They say we must not hate, nor fight in hate.I've thought it over many a solemn hour,And cannot mildly view ...
I. Fair Isabel, poor simple Isabel! Lorenzo, a young palmer in Love's eye! They could not in the self-same mansion ...
Ah yes, I love you, and with all my heart; Just as a weaker woman loves her own, Better than ...
Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it. Cast sweets into its cup whene'er you can. No heart so ...
Vicisti, Galilæe I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end; Goddess and maiden and ...
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