Sonnett – XVII (James Russell Lowell Poems)
THE SAME CONTINUEDA poet cannot strive for despotism;His harp falls shattered; for it still must beThe instinct of great spirits ...
THE SAME CONTINUEDA poet cannot strive for despotism;His harp falls shattered; for it still must beThe instinct of great spirits ...
TO M.W., ON HER BIRTHDAYMaiden, when such a soul as thine is born,The morning-stars their ancient music make,And, joyful, once ...
They pass me by like shadows, crowds on crowds,Dim ghosts of men that hover to and fro,Hugging their bodies round ...
Amid these fragments of heroic daysWhen thought met deed with mutual passion's leap,There sits a Fame whose silent trump makes ...
I grieve not that ripe Knowledge takes awayThe charm that Nature to my childhood wore,For, with that insight, cometh, day ...
Great Truths are portions of the soul of man;Great souls are portions of Eternity;Each drop of blood that e'er through ...
THE SAME CONTINUEDThe love of all things springs from love of one;Wider the soul's horizon hourly grows,And over it with ...
Beloved, in the noisy city here,The thought of thee can make all turmoil cease;Around my spirit, folds thy spirit clearIts ...
'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 ...
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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