Under The Old Elm (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Poem Read At Cambridge On The Hundredth Anniversary Of Washington's Taking Command Of The American ArmyIWords pass as wind, but ...
Poem Read At Cambridge On The Hundredth Anniversary Of Washington's Taking Command Of The American ArmyIWords pass as wind, but ...
Hunger.See Famine.The Morning came, the Night, and Slumbers past,But still the furious Pangs of Hunger last:The cank'rous Rage still gnaws ...
Still let low wits, who sense nor honour prize,Sneer at all gratitude, all truth disguise;At living worth, because alive, exclaim,Insult ...
Well; I may now receive and die. My sin Indeed is great, but yet I have been in A purgatory, such as ...
Well; I may now receive, and die. My sin Indeed is great, but yet I have been in A purgatory, such as ...
WHAT wondrous noise is heard around!Through heaven exulting voices sound,A mighty army marches onBy thousand millions follow'd, lo,To yon dark ...
Arma virumque cano.-- ~Virg.Why should so many curses come onThe hoary head of P---st D---d?(I think his real name, M'Gr---r,Would ...
Alas! how dismal is my tale, I lost my watch in Doneraile. My Dublin watch, my chain and seal, Pilfer'd at once in ...
As the Chameleon, who is knownTo have no colours of his own,But borrows from his neighbour's hueHis white or black, ...
To what a cumbersome unwieldinessAnd burdenous corpulence my love had grown, But that I did, to make it less, And keep it ...
ALOOF from his tribeOn the elm-tree's top,A jackdaw perchedA hand-reach up.Silent he satOn the branch, nor stirred,And I saw m ...
When Athens was for Arts and Arms renown'd,Olympic Wreaths uncommon Merit crown'd.These slight Distinctions from the Learn'd and Wise,Convey'd eternal ...
This heritage to the race of kings,Their children and their children's seedHave wrought their prophecies in deedOf terrible and splendid ...
Proemion.Immeasurable Earth!Through the loud vast and populacy of Heaven,Tempested with gold schools of ponderous orbs,That cleav'st with deep-revolting harmoniesPassage perpetual, ...
RING, bells! flags, fly! and let the great crowd roar Its ecstasy. Let the hid heart in prayer ...
It boots not to retrace the path To ages dim and hoar, When Man, at the domestic hearth, ...
Some generous painter now assist my pen,And help to draw the most despised of men:Or else, oh Muse! do thou ...
ALTHO' to man's aspiring pride, It may appear degrading;Yet look on all the world around,And say what ...
If I were called in To construct a religion I should make use of water. Going to church Would entail ...
THOUGHTS ON JESUS CHRIST'S DESCENT INTO HELL. [THE remarkable Poem of which this is a literal but faint representation, was ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
© 2020 Inspirational Stories