To The Future (James Russell Lowell Poems)
O Land of Promise! from what Pisgah's height Can I behold thy stretch of peaceful bowers,Thy golden harvests flowing out of ...
O Land of Promise! from what Pisgah's height Can I behold thy stretch of peaceful bowers,Thy golden harvests flowing out of ...
Tost rudely round this whirling sphere,Estrang'd from all he valued dear;Shut out from beauty's bright'ning ray;The social night, the tranquil ...
Nay ;—ask not for a mirthful air,— I ne'er will sing of joy again ;Dejected—driven to despair— As I for ever must ...
Died at Hartford, May 4th, 1860.Aye, robe yourselves in black, light messengersWhose letter'd faces to the people tellThe pulse and ...
Again rejoicing nature seesHer robe assume its vernal hues,Her leafy looks wave in the breeze,All freshly steep'd in morning dews.And ...
Sacred to Mirth let this Day be;Let Music's sweetest MelodyRe-echo thro' the ValesThat gave Humanity's kind Son,Array'd in Laurels he ...
I thank Thee Father that I feel Thee near, That it is hand of Thine that s raised to smite,Oh, make ...
I.WHAT shalt THOU know of Spring? A verdant crown Of young boughs waving o'er thy blooming head: White tufted Guelder-roses, ...
It was on Burray's seabeat Isle,Where Fairies dwelt in days of yore,That Richard's lowly cottage stood,Near where old Neptune's briny ...
Is it so, that the sword is broken, Our sword, that was halfway drawn?Is it so, that the light ...
"WILD thro' the desert woods Alzira flew! Her robe disorder'd hung; Wet were her locks from midnight's chilly dew, Her ...
WHY heave my sighs, and thus my tearsWhy do they flow so fast?Why swells my mind with former grief,And woes ...
Into a temple vast and dim,Solemn and vast and dim,Just when the last sweet Vesper Hymn Was floating far away,With ...
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
Hark ! from the battlements of yonder tower The solemn bell has tolled the midnight hour ! Roused from drear ...
Methought I saw him but I knew him not; He was so changed from what he used to be, There ...
AGAIN rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues: Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep'd ...
Inside this northern summer's fold The fields are full of naked gold, Broadcast from heaven on lands it loves; The ...
Is it so, that the sword is broken, Our sword, that was halfway drawn? Is it so, that the light ...
TERRIFIC FIEND! thou Monster fell, Condemn'd in haunts profane to dwell, Why quit thy solitary Home, O'er wide Creation's paths ...
SWEET CHILD OF REASON! maid serene; With folded arms, and pensive mien, Who wand'ring near yon thorny wild, So oft, ...
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