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 ...
hus, having show'd you what I seeOf heaven, I now will tellYou also, after search, what beThe damned wights of ...
"A HORSE amongst ten thousand! on the verge,The extremest verge of equine life he stands;Yet mark his action, as those ...
You of each sex and age, draw near,And to my sad Complaint give ear,Who vice, unto the last obey'd,But now ...
O Lord, my God! who formedst me of nought!My Saviour, who from death his servant bought!O Holy Ghost! O Trinity ...
I s'pose I hain't progressive, but I swan, it seems ter meReligion isn't nigh so good as what it used ...
(CONGRESS, 1860-61) Stand strong and calm as Fate! not a breath of scorn or hate-- Of taunt for the base, or of ...
Who can reviewe, without a pretious losse Of teares, the bitter sorowes of thy crosse (Oh Dearest Lord) Whose corps was gor'd, In every ...
Law! what is law? The wise and sage, Of every clime and every age, In this most cordially unite, That ...
As bullets come to us they're thin, They're angular, or smooth and fat, Some spiral are, and gimlet in, ...
The Man says:Laverock i' the lift,Hae ye nae sang-thrift,'At ye scatter 't sae heigh, and lat it a' drift?Wasterfu laverock!Dinna ...
I slung me khaki suit to-day. Civilian now front heel to chin I 'op round on a single ...
I walked out with an alderman, all on a bright spring day.He was an august alderman, and much had he ...
Nay, why discuss this summer heat, Of which vain people tell? Oh, sinner, rather were it meet To ...
I. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the ...
Something strange is creeping across me. La Celestina has only to warble the first few bars Of "I Thought about ...
When Yankies, skill'd in martial rule, First put the British troops to school; Instructed them in warlike trade, And new ...
You are a friend then, as I make it out, Of our man Shakespeare, who alone of us Will put ...
NOTE.-Rahel Robert and Varnhagen von Ense were married, after many protestations on her part, in 1814. The marriage-so far as ...
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
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