The Optimist (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Turbid from London's noise and smoke,Here I find air and quiet too;Air filtered through the beech and oak,Quiet by nothing ...
Turbid from London's noise and smoke,Here I find air and quiet too;Air filtered through the beech and oak,Quiet by nothing ...
ONCE two persons uninvitedCame to join my dinner table;For the nonce they lived united,Fox and crane yclept in fable.Civil greetings ...
Each morning I pass on my way to workA clock in a towerAnd I look towards it with anxious eyesTo ...
IN seventy five the Critick of our yearsCommenc'd our war with Phillip and his peers.Whither the sun in Leo had ...
Bright burn, that flings itself or flows Among the blooming ...
Never say aught in verse, or grave or gay,That you in prose would hesitate to say.Never in rhyme pretend to ...
Because a lady asks me, I would tellOf an affect that comes often and is fellAnd is so overweening; Love ...
Woe worth, woe worth thee, false Scotlande!For thou hast ever wrought by sleight;The worthyest prince that ever was borne,You hanged ...
Since Galatea came in, and Tuscanism gan usurp,Vanity above all: villainy next her, stateliness EmpressNo man but minion, stout, lout, ...
And if I did, what then? Are you aggriev'd therefore? The sea hath fish for every ...
Dans un monde au futur du temps o? j'ai la vieQui ne s'est pas form? dans le ciel d'aujourd'hui,Au plus ...
WITHIN a town where parity According to old form we see,-- That is to say, where Catholic And Protestant no ...
ONCE two persons uninvited Came to join my dinner table; For the nonce they lived united, Fox and crane yclept ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
A MIDDLE-AGE INTERLUDE. ROSA MUNDI; SEU, FULCITE ME FLORIBUS. A CONCEIT OF MASTER GYSBRECHT, CANON-REGULAR OF SAID JODOCUS-BY-THE-BAR, YPRES CITY. ...
I. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the ...
Give'' and ``It-shall-be-given-unto-you.'' I. Grand rough old Martin Luther Bloomed fables---flowers on furze, The better the uncouther: Do roses stick ...
O mad, superbly drunk; If you kick open your doors and play the fool in public; If you empty your ...
Gawaine, aware again of Lancelot In the King's garden, coughed and followed him; Whereat he turned and stood with folded ...
NOTE.-The following imaginary dialogue between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, which is not based upon any specific incident in American ...
Here let us linger at will and delightsomely hearken Music aeolian of wind in the boughs of pine, Timbrel of ...
A giant as we hoped, in truth, a dwarf; A barrel of slop that shines on Lethe's wharf', Which at ...
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