An Ode For The Fourth Of July (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Entranced I saw a vision in the cloudThat loitered dreaming in yon sunset sky,Full of fair shapes, half creatures of ...
Entranced I saw a vision in the cloudThat loitered dreaming in yon sunset sky,Full of fair shapes, half creatures of ...
of ice. Deceptively reserved and flat,it lies "in grandeur and in mass"beneath a sea of shifting snow-dunes;dots of cyclamen-red and ...
AN ODE. O Queen and Spirit! beautiful and still, Whose eyes the world's most wondrous things receive, So that thy face we never ...
ILOVE'S DAWNStill thine eyes haunt me; in the darkness now,The dreamtime, the hushed stillness of the night,I see them shining ...
The fourteen centuries fall awayBetween us and the Afric saint,And at his side we urge, to-day,The immemorial quest and old ...
OUR ears had grown familiar with"Mr. Money" and "Mr. Smith"When, in the war's first anxious hour,Bellona, thy transmuting power,That we ...
Perspective never withers from their eyes;They keep that docile edict of the SpringThat blends March with August Antarctic skies:These are ...
ARE we daily drawing nearerThee, the Perfect, the Unseen?Grows the pathway ever clearer,Stretching sense and God between?Thine own messengers beside ...
Those who have touched it or been touched by itOr brushed by something that the vine has brushed,Or burning it, ...
What magic is there in thy mien What sorcery in thy smile,Which charms away all cark and care,Which turns the foul ...
Where, through the myriad leaves of forest trees,The daylight falls, beryl and chrysoprase,The glamour and the glimmer of its raysSeem ...
Riveted to mountain slopes,The Douglas fir and pineWere as firm as ribs of steelWhere drills pneumatic whine;Ogres of our country's ...
SAW ye that spinster gaunt and grey, Whose aspect stern might well dismay A bombardier stout-hearted? The golden hair, the ...
I know your heart, O Sea! You are tossed with cold desire to flood earth utterly; You run at the ...
Ho! Ye who mourn the serried ranks that mouldOn fens of Flanders, hills of Picardy,Who rail at king or kaiser, ...
Those who have touched it or been touched by it Or brushed by something that the vine has brushed, Or ...
Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape, Or grew on vine whose tap-roots, ...
TO the assembled folk At great St. Kavin's spoke Young Brother Amiel on Christmas Eve; I give you joy, my ...
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