Fragments Of An Unfinished Poem (James Russell Lowell Poems)
I am a man of forty, sirs, a native of East Haddam,And have some reason to surmise that I descend ...
I am a man of forty, sirs, a native of East Haddam,And have some reason to surmise that I descend ...
JUNE 8, 1881THREE paths there be where Learning's favored sons,Trained in the schools which hold her favored ones,Follow their several ...
'TWAS night in Babylon,--yet many a beamOf lamps, far glittering from her domes on high,Shone, brightly mingling in Euphrates' stream,With ...
THE dismal news ran through the land of Moush:"Here comes the Khan Long Timour, fierce and fell,The despot grim who ...
She once was a lady of honor and wealth; Bright glowed in her features the roses of health; Her vesture was blended ...
He will not sleep: by Moscow's lurid glareOf fiery columns darting to the skies-By her sad widows' wail and orphans ...
When Persecution's torrent blaze Wraps the unshrinking Martyr's head;When fade all earthly flowers and bays, When summer friends are gone and fled,Is ...
Is this a time to plant and build,Add house to house, and field to field,When round our walls the battle ...
When the keen axe remorseless laid The woods of Edgecombe low, Lest now their leafy skreen should aid The approaches of the foe; Astonish'd ...
His eyes are bright and eager, with the brightnessof the sun,(England, he gives them you)His hands are strong for climbing ...
There was strength in him and the weak won freely from it, There was an infinite pity, and hard hearts grew ...
Go spread thy strong pinions, and rear thy proud crest,Cleave the red clouds of morn with unwavering breast;Bold eagle! full ...
NOT in the hour of peril, thronged with foes, Panting to set their heel upon my head,-- Or when alone from many ...
'TIS done--the night has pass'd away; And, basking in the sunny day, The laughing fountain's waters bear No record of ...
Where hath not a woman stood, Strong in affection's might? a reed, upborne By an o'er mastering current! ...
WE read in our childhood of rings which were wrought By magical fires in the heart of the hills; Which ...
"AND what is life? A fleeting shade, A cheerless, beamless, frozen glade, A span too short for joy to smile, ...
Daughter of old England! Buckle on his sword:Forth to fight for England Goes your king and lord, —Goes ...
WE pray for earth and earthly things, Surely such prayer is nought, A bended knee, a lifted voice Unmixed with ...
Securely cabined in the ship below, Through darkness and through storm I cross the sea, A pathless wilderness of waves ...
Come, rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer, Though the herd have fled from thee, thy home is still ...
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