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 ...
Once more, we all from seed celestial spring,To all is that same father, from whom earth,The fostering mother, as she ...
In ancient days, in old, immortal Rome,Where virtues, surnamed Roman, had their home;When Virtue triumphed over Vice, and threwAcross their ...
FOR THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY, 1816.When Spain's proud Genius saw Columbus braveThe Western Course of the Atlantic Wave;Saw his aspiring Mind, ...
Millions have been and passed from view Benignity who never knew; No aspiration theirs, nor aim; Existence soulless as the clay From whence they ...
How much of paper's spoil d what floods of ink!And yet how few how very few can think!The knack of ...
IAt the gate of the West I stand,On the isle where the nations throng.We call them "scum o' the earth";Stay, ...
I seem to see the old tree stand, Its sturdy, giant form A spectacle remembered, and A pilgrim-shrine for all the land Before it ...
As Columbia's brave scions, in anger array'd, Once defy'd a proud monarch and built a new nation;'Gainst their brothers of Britain ...
Spirit that moves the sap in spring,When lusty male birds fight and sing,Inform my words, and make my linesAs sweet ...
God with honour hang your head,Groom, and grace you, bride, your bedWith lissome scions, sweet scions,Out of hallowed bodies bred.Each ...
A TALE, FROM MARMONTEL'S INCAS OF PERUWHEN o'er the western world IBERIA'S bandsWith blood and rapine stain'd their guilty hands;When ...
Bold is the Muse to leave her humble Cell, And sing to thee, who know'st to sing so well: Thee! ...
A gambler born was young BasilHis finances were all of a latherA wayward boy, but his mother's joyAnd likewise, the ...
The royal Wan now rests on high, Enshrined in brightness of the sky. Chow as a state had long been ...
Creggan GraveyardIn Creggan graveyard I slept last night in despairWith the rising of the morning a woman came to me ...
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
God with honour hang your head, Groom, and grace you, bride, your bed With lissome scions, sweet scions, Out of ...
YES, friend, I own these tales of Arabia Smile not, as smiled their flawless originals, Age-old but yet untamed, for ...
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