Fitz Adam’s Story (James Russell Lowell Poems)
The next whose fortune 'twas a tale to tellWas one whom men, before they thought, loved well,And after thinking wondered ...
The next whose fortune 'twas a tale to tellWas one whom men, before they thought, loved well,And after thinking wondered ...
Man is a creature of a thousand whims;The slave of hope and fear and circumstance.Through toil and martyrdom a million ...
Rivermouth Rocks are fair to see,By dawn or sunset shone across,When the ebb of the sea has left them free,To ...
JANE.Harry! I'm tired of playing. We'll draw roundThe fire, and Grandmamma perhaps will tell usOne of her stories.HARRY.Aye--dear Grandmamma!A pretty ...
In aunciente days, tradition showes,A base and wicked elfe arose,The Witch of Wokey hight:Oft have I heard the fearfull tale,From ...
Pale, and shabby, and looking so ill, Hungry and cold and wet, On a winter's morning going to mill The factory-child I met:All ...
With younger men he takes his stand, To the recruiting-sergeant nigh,Sees others chosen: lifts a hand In hopes to catch the unwilling ...
_(Grandfather, musing.)_In childish days! O memory, You bring such curious things to me!--Laughs to the lip--tears to the eye,In looking on ...
When of the circumstances of the wise are the ignorant aware,Who, through their own foolishness, are worthless and despicable too?A ...
CLARICE awoke next morning with the sense That something she had found, and something lost; A little pain she felt, ...
I Frindsbury, Kent, 1786 Bang! Bang! Tap! Tap-a-tap! Rap! All through the lead and silver Winter days, All through the ...
Hold your soul open for my welcoming. Let the quiet of your spirit bathe me With its clear and rippled ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
Lo! from quiet skies In through the window my Lord the Sun! And my eyes Were dazzled and drunk with ...
When silver snow decks Susan's clothes, And jewel hangs at th' shepherd's nose, The blushing bank is all my care, ...
I I walk through the long schoolroom questioning; A kind old nun in a white hood replies; The children learn ...
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