The Dead House (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Here once my step was quickened, Here beckoned the opening door,And welcome thrilled from the threshold To the foot it had known ...
Here once my step was quickened, Here beckoned the opening door,And welcome thrilled from the threshold To the foot it had known ...
AGRO DOLCEThe wind is roistering out of doors,My windows shake and my chimney roars;My Elmwood chimneys seem crooning to me,As ...
When the tea is brought at five o'clock,And all the neat curtains are drawn with care,The little black cat with ...
I sit by the hearthfire lonely,The vacant armchair by,And think of the sweet days onlyWhen she who is gone was ...
"Now, scarce three paces measured from the mound,We stumbled on a stationary voice,And 'Stand, who goes?' 'Two from the palace' ...
Jist 'ere it gripped me, on a sudden, like a red-'ot knife.I wus diggin' in the garden, talkin' pleasant to ...
When my ship comes in, as it's bound to come, I'll follow no poet to Innisfree, For I don't much ...
We danced at night in the farm-house, While, fifty yards away,We could hear the rush of the engines When the ...
Those paths I brushed With the feet of a child - where have they gone? They roll down as tears ...
One yeer owder, one yeer dearer: That's what I sal awlus say.Draw thy chair a little nearer, Put ...
YESTERDAY was St. Valentine. Thought you at all, dear dove divine, Upon the beard in sorry trim And rueful countenance ...
As the road runs beneath our wheelsLike a yellow river, We play at hide-and-seek with the setting sun.Now at the ...
When the kindly hours of darkness, save for light of moon and star, Hide the picture on the signboard over ...
St. Agnes' Eve--Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limp'd trembling through ...
I LOVE it, I love it ; and who shall dare To chide me for loving that old Arm-chair ? ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
1 SAUNTERING the pavement, or riding the country by-road-lo! such faces! Faces of friendship, precision, caution, suavity, ideality; The spiritual, ...
Once more the gate behind me falls; Once more before my face I see the moulder'd Abbey-walls, That stand within ...
Now, scarce three paces measured from the mound, We stumbled on a stationary voice, And 'Stand, who goes?' 'Two from ...
"Gather around me, children dear; The wind is high and the night is cold; Closer, little ones, snuggle near; Let's ...
Oh I am neither rich nor poor, No worker I dispoil; Yet I am glad to be secure From servitude ...
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