The Nobler Lover (James Russell Lowell Poems)
If he be a nobler lover, take him!You in you I seek, and not myself;Love with men's what women choose ...
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 ...
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 ...
TO J.R. GIDDINGSGiddings, far rougher names than thine have grownSmoother than honey on the lips of men;And thou shalt aye ...
Shy soul and stalwart, man of patient willThrough years one hair's-breadth on our Dark to gain,Who, from the stars he ...
I ask not for those thoughts, that sudden leapFrom being's sea, like the isle-seeming Kraken,With whose great rise the ocean ...
SUB PONDERE CRESCITThe hope of Truth grows stronger, day by day;I hear the soul of Man around me waking,Like a ...
They pass me by like shadows, crowds on crowds,Dim ghosts of men that hover to and fro,Hugging their bodies round ...
Hers all that Earth could promise or bestow,--Youth, Beauty, Love, a crown, the beckoning years,Lids never wet, unless with joyous ...
THE SAME CONTINUEDOnce hardly in a cycle blossomethA flower-like soul ripe with the seeds of song,A spirit foreordained to cope ...
Ye little think what toil it was to buildA world of men imperfect even as this,Where we conceive of Good ...
Great Truths are portions of the soul of man;Great souls are portions of Eternity;Each drop of blood that e'er through ...
'For this true nobleness I seek in vain,In woman and in man I find it not;I almost weary of my ...
The wisest man could ask no more of FateThan to be simple, modest, manly, true,Safe from the Many, honoured by ...
Seat of all woes? Though Nature's firm decreeThe narrowing soul with narrowing dungeon bind,Yet was his free of motion as ...
Ship, blest to bear such freight across the blue,May stormless stars control thy horoscope;In keel and hull, in every spar ...
I cannot think that thou shouldst pass away,Whose life to mine is an eternal law,A piece of nature that can ...
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