Hakon’s Lay (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Then Thorstein looked at Hakon, where he sate,Mute as a cloud amid the stormy hall,And said: "O Skald, sing now ...
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 ...
With what odorous woods and spicesSpared for royal sacrifices,With what costly gums seld-seen,Hoarded to embalm a queen,With what frankincense and ...
The tower of old Saint Nicholas soared upward to the skies,Like some huge piece of Nature's make, the growth of ...
O wandering dim on the extremest edge Of God's bright providence, whose spirits sighDrearily in you, like the winter sedge That shivers ...
How struggles with the tempest's swellsThat warning of tumultuous bells!The fire is loose! and frantic knells Throb fast and faster,As tower ...
How strange are the freaks of memory! The lessons of life we forget,While a trifle, a trick of color, In the wonderful ...
Hushed with broad sunlight lies the hill, And, minuting the long day's loss,The cedar's shadow, slow and still, Creeps o'er its dial ...
Light of triumph in her eyes,Eleanor her apron ties;As she pushes back her sleeves,High resolve her bosom heaves.Hasten, cook! impel ...
Stood the tall Archangel weighingAll man's dreaming, doing, saying,All the failure and the pain,All the triumph and the gain,In the ...
A stranger came one night to Yussouf's tent,Saying, 'Behold one outcast and in dread,Against whose life the bow of power ...
Who does his duty is a question Too complex to be solved by me,But he, I venture the suggestion, Does part of ...
I sat and watched the walls of night With cracks of sudden lightning glow,And listened while with clumsy might The thunder wallowed ...
If he be a nobler lover, take him!You in you I seek, and not myself;Love with men's what women choose ...
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 ...
Into the sunshine,Full of the light,Leaping and flashingFrom morn till night!Into the moonlight,Whiter than snow,Waving so flower-likeWhen the winds blow!Into ...
TO THE SPIRIT OF KEATSGreat soul, thou sittest with me in my room,Uplifting me with thy vast, quiet eyes,On whose ...
Gold of the reddening sunset, backward thrownIn largess on my tall paternal trees,Thou with false hope or fear didst never ...
Thanks to the artist, ever on my wallThe sunset stays: that hill in glory rolled,Those trees and clouds in crimson ...
I thought our love at full, but I did err;Joy's wreath drooped o'er mine eyes; I could not seeThat sorrow ...
I thought our love at full, but I did err;Joy's wreath drooped o'er mine eyes; I could not seeThat sorrow ...
Beloved, in the noisy city here,The thought of thee can make all turmoil cease;Around my spirit, folds thy spirit clearIts ...
THE SAME CONCLUDEDFar 'yond this narrow parapet of Time,With eyes uplift, the poet's soul should lookInto the Endless Promise, nor ...
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