Studies For Two Heads (James Russell Lowell Poems)
ISome sort of heart I know is hers,-- I chanced to feel her pulse one night;A brain she has that never ...
ISome sort of heart I know is hers,-- I chanced to feel her pulse one night;A brain she has that never ...
SCENE I.--_Near a castle in Germany._'Twere no hard task, perchance, to win The popular laurel for my song;'Twere only to comply ...
Death never came so nigh to me before,Nor showed me his mild face: oft had I musedOf calm and peace ...
At Carnac in Brittany, close on the bay,They show you a church, or rather the grayRibs of a dead one, ...
Go! leave me, Priest; my soul would be Alone with the consoler, Death;Far sadder eyes than thine will see This crumbling clay ...
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good ...
Praisest Law, friend? We, too, love it much as they that love it best;'Tis the deep, august foundation, whereon Peace ...
Thou look'dst on me all yesternight,Thine eyes were blue, thy hair was brightAs when we murmured our troth-plightBeneath the thick ...
Written For Mr. Bryant's Seventieth BirthdayOur ship lay tumbling in an angry sea, Her rudder gone, her mainmast o'er the side;Her ...
It was past the hour of trysting, But she lingered for him still;Like a child, the eager streamlet Leaped and laughed adown ...
God makes sech nights, all white an' stillFur 'z you can look or listen,Moonshine an' snow on field an' hill,All ...
When wise Minerva still was young And just the least romantic,Soon after from Jove's head she flung That preternatural antic,'Tis said, to ...
Heaven's cup held down to me I drain,The sunshine mounts and spurs my brain;Bathing in grass, with thirsty eyeI suck ...
'Come forth!' my catbird calls to me, 'And hear me sing a cavatinaThat, in this old familiar tree, Shall hang a garden ...
Then Thorstein looked at Hakon, where he sate,Mute as a cloud amid the stormy hall,And said: "O Skald, sing now ...
What Nature makes in any moodTo me is warranted for good,Though long before I learned to seeShe did not set ...
Sisters two, all praise to you,With your faces pinched and blue;To the poor man you've been true From of old:You can ...
It mounts athwart the windy hill Through sallow slopes of upland bare,And Fancy climbs with foot-fall still Its narrowing curves that end ...
Look on who will in apathy, and stifle they who can,The sympathies, the hopes, the words, that make man truly ...
II christened you in happier days, beforeThese gray forebodings on my brow were seen;You are still lovely in your new-leaved ...
The tower of old Saint Nicholas soared upward to the skies,Like some huge piece of Nature's make, the growth of ...
Guvener B. is a sensible man;He stays to his home an' looks arter his folks;He draws his furrer ez straight ...
O wandering dim on the extremest edge Of God's bright providence, whose spirits sighDrearily in you, like the winter sedge That shivers ...
Don't believe in the Flying Dutchman? I've known the fellow for years;My button I've wrenched from his clutch, man: I shudder whenever ...
UNDER A FIGURE SYMBOLIZING THE CHURCHThou wast the fairest of all man-made things;The breath of heaven bore up thy cloudy ...
Written In Aid Of A Chime Of Bells For Christ Church, CambridgeGodminster? Is it Fancy's play? I know not, but the ...
Bowing thyself in dust before a Book,And thinking the great God is thine alone,O rash iconoclast, thou wilt not brookWhat ...
In good old times, which means, you know,The time men wasted long ago,And we must blame our brains or moodIf ...
Not as all other women areIs she that to my soul is dear;Her glorious fancies come from far,Beneath the silver ...
There came a youth upon the earth,Some thousand years ago,Whose slender hands were nothing worth,Whether to plow, to reap, or ...
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