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.A NATION'S greatness lies in men, not acres;One master-mind is worth a million hands.No royal robes have marked the planet-shakers,But ...
WHENE'ER with pitying eye I viewEach operative sot in town.I smile to think how wondrous fewGet drunk who study at ...
FROM THE HINDOSTANEE."I AM poor," said Chunder Ali, while the Mandarin above himFrowned in supercilious anger at the dog who ...
Archduke Francis Ferdinand, Austrian Heir-Apparent,Rideth through the Shadow Land, not a lone knight errant,But captain of a mighty train, millions ...
Be glad, thou tranquil Hindostan, That God such mercy gives,—That tribe with tribe, and man with man In friendly concord lives!Rejoice, for ...
She came among the gathering crowd,A maiden fair, without pretence,And when they asked her humble name,She whispered mildly, "Common Sense."Her ...
I wonder if the spell, the mystery,That like a haze about your silence clings,Moulding your void until we seem to ...
What deep wounds ever clos'd without a scar?The heart's bleed longest, and but heal to wearThat which disfigures it. ...
When Johnnie Bull pledges his word, To keep it he'll gird on his sword, While ...
A Dramatic Lyric. A BACHELOR of common type, I sit me down before the fire And take my after-dinner pipe, ...
THE round world glows in its green and rose, And the full buds burst to bloom: The earth is ours ...
I've served in the French Foreign Legion It's Hell! The life couldn't be harder, For it's war to the knife ...
Oh, the summer time is beautiful, with all its sunny sky,The soft sweet carol of the birds and streams that ...
By an old whitewashed PagodaLooking Eastwards to the WestThere's a Burma girl, from BermondseySits in a sparrow's nest.She's as pretty ...
Deep in the heart of the jungle, Close to the white man's grave,Where the goldfish have beards that stick out ...
'Twas but a dream; a fond and foolish dream; The calenture of a delirious brain,Whose fever thirst creates the rushing ...
1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds! Such join'd unended links, each hook'd ...
1 OVER the western sea, hither from Niphon come, Courteous, the swart-cheek'd two-sworded envoys, Leaning back in their open barouches, ...
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