An Oriental Apologue (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Somewhere in India, upon a time,(Read it not Injah, or you spoil the verse,) There dwelt two saints whose privilege sublimeIt ...
Somewhere in India, upon a time,(Read it not Injah, or you spoil the verse,) There dwelt two saints whose privilege sublimeIt ...
I.Oh for a field, my friend; oh for a field! I ask no more Than one plain field, shut in by hedgerows ...
To-day the plant by Williams setIts summer bloom discloses;The wilding sweethrier of his prayersIs crowned with cultured roses.Once more the ...
Without the slightest basis For hypochondriasis A widow had forebodings which a cloud around her flung, And with expression cynical For half the day a ...
Oh, what a blessed interval A rainy day may be! No lightning flash nor tempest roar, But one incessant, steady pour Of dripping melody; When ...
Remote and ineffectual DonThat dared attack my Chesterton,With that poor weapon, half-impelled,Unlearnt, unsteady, hardly held,Unworthy for a tilt with men—Your ...
I There is a man of fifty-four years; He has dyspepsia, it appears; He chooses his food carefully, He pays ...
Part FirstYou'll recall, if you're strong on historical stuff, The name of that highly deluded old fluff Who chartered a ...
Jack Sprat would eat no fat, His wife would eat ...
I'd not complain of Sister Jane, for she was good and kind,Combining with rare comeliness distinctive gifts of mind;Nay, I'll ...
Full many a sinful notion Conceived of foreign powersHas come across the ocean To harm this land of ours;And heresies ...
SO, dear Fred, you're not content Though I quote the books you lent, And I've kept that spray you sent ...
Walk up! Walk up to the Bureaucratic Fair!All the tasters and the testers and the tallymen are there. All the ...
Sir, -- I try to do my duty as a patriotic man With sane views about the science of gastronomy;And ...
I'd not complain of Sister Jane, for she was good and kind, Combining with rare comeliness distinctive gifts of mind; ...
Full many a sinful notion Conceived of foreign powers Has come across the ocean To harm this land of ours; ...
Why can't I keep out of harm's way? Am I so preoccupied, simultaneously looking ahead, concurrently looking behind; concerned to ...
Remote and ineffectual Don That dared attack my Chesterton, With that poor weapon, half-impelled, Unlearnt, unsteady, hardly held, Unworthy for ...
Master I may be, But not of my fate. Now come the kisses, too many too late. Tell me, O ...
Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, ...
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