Auspex (James Russell Lowell Poems)
My heart, I cannot still it,Nest that had song-birds in it;And when the last shall go,The dreary days to fill ...
My heart, I cannot still it,Nest that had song-birds in it;And when the last shall go,The dreary days to fill ...
New England's poet, rich in love as years,Her hills and valleys praise thee, her swift brooksDance in thy verse; to ...
THE SAME CONTINUEDA poet cannot strive for despotism;His harp falls shattered; for it still must beThe instinct of great spirits ...
TO M.O.S.Mary, since first I knew thee, to this hour,My love hath deepened, with my wiser senseOf what in Woman ...
I grieve not that ripe Knowledge takes awayThe charm that Nature to my childhood wore,For, with that insight, cometh, day ...
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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