The Landlord (James Russell Lowell Poems)
What boot your houses and your lands? In spite of close-drawn deed and fence,Like water, twixt your cheated hands,They slip into ...
What boot your houses and your lands? In spite of close-drawn deed and fence,Like water, twixt your cheated hands,They slip into ...
Woe worth the hour when it is crime To plead the poor dumb bondman's cause,When all that makes the heart sublime,The ...
A stranger came one night to Yussouf's tent,Saying, 'Behold one outcast and in dread,Against whose life the bow of power ...
Turbid from London's noise and smoke,Here I find air and quiet too;Air filtered through the beech and oak,Quiet by nothing ...
I sat and watched the walls of night With cracks of sudden lightning glow,And listened while with clumsy might The thunder wallowed ...
Rabbi Jehosha used to sayThat God made angels every day,Perfect as Michael and the restFirst brooded in creation's nest,Whose only ...
One feast, of holy days the crest, I, though no Churchman, love to keep,All-Saints,--the unknown good that rest In God's still memory ...
Soldier and statesman, rarest unison;High-poised example of great duties doneSimply as breathing, a world's honors wornAs life's indifferent gifts to ...
This is the midnight of the century,--hark!Through aisle and arch of Godminster have goneTwelve throbs that tolled the zenith of ...
ON READING WORDSWORTH'S SONNETS IN DEFENCE OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENTAs the broad ocean endlessly upheaveth,With the majestic beating of his heart,The ...
I was with thee in Heaven: I cannot tellIf years or moments, so the sudden bliss,When first we found, then ...
THE SAME CONTINUEDThe love of all things springs from love of one;Wider the soul's horizon hourly grows,And over it with ...
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