Fitz Adam’s Story (James Russell Lowell Poems)
The next whose fortune 'twas a tale to tellWas one whom men, before they thought, loved well,And after thinking wondered ...
The next whose fortune 'twas a tale to tellWas one whom men, before they thought, loved well,And after thinking wondered ...
_Year 13--._ Barbican, bartizan, battlement, With the Abergavenny mountains blent, Look, from the Raglan tower of Gwent, My lord Hugh Clifford's ancient home Shows, clear ...
Ah, haughty hills, sardonic solitudes, What wizard touch hath, crowning you with gold, Cast Tyrian purple o'er broad-shouldered woods, And to your pride ...
The bulging cloud mounts lazily In shade where sunlight glances through, And sweeping lightly from the tree Melts indolently in the blue. The scanty ...
1 He wandered into the market2 With pipes and goatish hoof;3 He wandered in a grotesque shape,4 And no one ...
Quivering fears, Heart-tearing cares,Anxious sighs, Untimely tears,Fly, fly to Courts,Fly to fond worldling's sports,Where strained Sardonic smiles are glossing still,And ...
Quivering fears, heart-tearing cares,Anxious sighs, untimely tears,Fly, fly to courts,Fly to fond worldling's sports,Where strained sardonic smiles are glossing still,And ...
African Guardian of Souls,Drunk with rum,Feasting on strange cassava,Yielding to new words and a weak palabraOf a white-faced sardonic god—Grins, ...
I.(_On many recent novels by the conventional unconventionalists_.)Old Pantaloon, lean-witted, dour and rich, After grim years of soul-destroying greed,Weds Columbine, ...
GOATS go past the back of the house like dry leaves in the dawn,And up the hill like a ...
Some saw in him a Scottish wreck; some said that he was mad;A few proclaimed his genius, but all agreed ...
In the old town traditions -- as greybeards will explain --One epic tale immortalises Lah-di-dah Lane, Clerk to a local ...
We can claim without elation or immodest fabricationThat the genius of our nation is embodied in our camps,And futurity's summation ...
At Bedrashein between the pyramidsI saw the wing?d sun fold up his pinionsAnd sink into the nether world's dominionsWhere Set ...
1 A yellow band of light upon the street Pours from an open door, and makes a wide Pathway of ...
African Guardian of Souls, Drunk with rum, Feasting on strange cassava, Yielding to new words and a weak palabra Of ...
I There was Claw-fingered Kitty and Windy Ike living the life of shame, When unto them in the Long, Long ...
They asked the Bard of Ayr to dine; The banquet hall was fit and fine, With gracing it a Lord; ...
I Laugh at Life: its antics make for me a giddy games, Where only foolish fellows take themselves with solemn ...
The darkness crumbles away It is the same old druid Time as ever, Only a live thing leaps my hand, ...
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