Rosaline (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Thou look'dst on me all yesternight,Thine eyes were blue, thy hair was brightAs when we murmured our troth-plightBeneath the thick ...
James Russell Lowell Poems on Nature (54 Poems)
Festina Lente (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Once on a time there was a poolFringed all about with flag-leaves coolAnd spotted with cow-lilies garish,Of frogs and pouts ...
To Lamartine (James Russell Lowell Poems)
I did not praise thee when the crowd, 'Witched with the moment's inspiration,Vexed thy still ether with hosannas loud, And stamped their ...
Ambrose (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Never, surely, was holier manThan Ambrose, since the world began;With diet spare and raiment thinHe shielded himself from the father ...
Dara (James Russell Lowell Poems)
When Persia's sceptre trembled in a handWilted with harem-heats, and all the landWas hovered over by those vulture illsThat snuff ...
The Nightingale In The Study (James Russell Lowell Poems)
'Come forth!' my catbird calls to me, 'And hear me sing a cavatinaThat, in this old familiar tree, Shall hang a garden ...
The Nomades (James Russell Lowell Poems)
What Nature makes in any moodTo me is warranted for good,Though long before I learned to seeShe did not set ...
The Foot-Path (James Russell Lowell Poems)
It mounts athwart the windy hill Through sallow slopes of upland bare,And Fancy climbs with foot-fall still Its narrowing curves that end ...
An Incident Of The Fire At Hamburg (James Russell Lowell Poems)
The tower of old Saint Nicholas soared upward to the skies,Like some huge piece of Nature's make, the growth of ...
To W.L. Garrison (James Russell Lowell Poems)
In a small chamber, friendless and unseen, Toiled o'er his types one poor, unlearned young man;The place was dark, unfurnitured, and ...
The Wind-Harp (James Russell Lowell Poems)
I treasure in secret some long, fine hair Of tenderest brown, but so inwardly goldenI half used to fancy the sunshine ...
On Planting A Tree At Inveraray (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Who does his duty is a question Too complex to be solved by me,But he, I venture the suggestion, Does part of ...
Kossuth (James Russell Lowell Poems)
A race of nobles may die out, A royal line may leave no heir;Wise Nature sets no guards about Her pewter plate ...
With An Armchair (James Russell Lowell Poems)
I.About the oak that framed this chair, of oldThe seasons danced their round; delighted wingsBrought music to its boughs; shy ...
The Optimist (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Turbid from London's noise and smoke,Here I find air and quiet too;Air filtered through the beech and oak,Quiet by nothing ...
The Lesson (James Russell Lowell Poems)
I sat and watched the walls of night With cracks of sudden lightning glow,And listened while with clumsy might The thunder wallowed ...
On Receiving A Copy Of Mr. Austin’s ‘Old World Idylls’ (James Russell Lowell Poems)
IAt length arrived, your book I takeTo read in for the author's sake;Too gray for new sensations grown,Can charm to ...
The Fountain (James Russell Lowell Poems)
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 ...
Sonnett – XIV (James Russell Lowell Poems)
ON READING WORDSWORTH'S SONNETS IN DEFENCE OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENTAs the broad ocean endlessly upheaveth,With the majestic beating of his heart,The ...
The Eye’s Treasury (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Gold of the reddening sunset, backward thrownIn largess on my tall paternal trees,Thou with false hope or fear didst never ...
Sonnett – XVI (James Russell Lowell Poems)
THE SAME CONTINUEDThe love of all things springs from love of one;Wider the soul's horizon hourly grows,And over it with ...
Sonnett – I (James Russell Lowell Poems)
TO A.C.L.Through suffering and sorrow thou hast passedTo show us what a woman true may be:They have not taken sympathy ...
Prison Of Cervantes (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Seat of all woes? Though Nature's firm decreeThe narrowing soul with narrowing dungeon bind,Yet was his free of motion as ...
Sonnett – X (James Russell Lowell Poems)
I cannot think that thou shouldst pass away,Whose life to mine is an eternal law,A piece of nature that can ...