Festina Lente (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Once on a time there was a poolFringed all about with flag-leaves coolAnd spotted with cow-lilies garish,Of frogs and pouts ...
Once on a time there was a poolFringed all about with flag-leaves coolAnd spotted with cow-lilies garish,Of frogs and pouts ...
The book was dull, its picturesAs leaden as its lore,But one glad, happy pictureMade up for all and more:'Twas that ...
Beyond the orchard, in the lane, The crested red-bird sings again-- O bird, whose song says, _Have no care._ Should I not care ...
VENUS with rosy-cloven rumpAnd rings of straw-bright flying hairLooks in the glass that slaves are plyingNot for her own face ...
Blossom of the apple trees! Mossy trunks all gnarled and hoary, Grey boughs tipped with rose-veined glory,Clustered petals soft as fleeceGarlanding old ...
DISPOSED to wed, e'en while you hasten, stay;There's great advantage in a small delay:Thus Ovid sang, and much the wise ...
Within the Jersey City shedThe engine coughs and shakes its head,The smoke, a plume of red and white,Waves madly in ...
Love sleeps! O do not strive to break His slumbers, he too soon will wake. But now all tranquilly he ...
Her mouth, that scarlet herald of her heart, Pouts just a little, but enough to tell That nature's self, who ...
It is said, the Great Men, who are seized with the pouts, At their suddenly alter'd condition;Who so late were ...
(For Edward J. Wheeler) Within the Jersey City shed The engine coughs and shakes its head, The smoke, a plume ...
ENDYMION. A Poetic Romance. "THE STRETCHED METRE OF AN AN ANTIQUE SONG." INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS CHATTERTON. Book ...
I. THE FLOWER'S NAME Here's the garden she walked across, Arm in my arm, such a short while since: Hark, ...
O ROUGH, rude, ready-witted Rankine, The wale o' cocks for fun an' drinkin! There's mony godly folks are thinkin, Your ...
'Perspective betrays with its dichotomy: train tracks always meet, not here, but only in the impossible mind's eye; horizons beat ...
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