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 ...
Once on a time there was a poolFringed all about with flag-leaves coolAnd spotted with cow-lilies garish,Of frogs and pouts ...
I did not praise thee when the crowd, 'Witched with the moment's inspiration,Vexed thy still ether with hosannas loud, And stamped their ...
Strong, simple, silent are the lawsThat sway this universe, of none withstood,Unconscious of man's outcries or applause,Or what man ...
What gnarled stretch, what depth of shade, is his! There needs no crown to mark the forest's king;How in his leaves ...
Don't believe in the Flying Dutchman? I've known the fellow for years;My button I've wrenched from his clutch, man: I shudder whenever ...
ON THE GIFT OF A MEERSCHAUM PIPEThe pipe came safe, and welcome too,As anything must be from you;A meerschaum pure, ...
Ere pales in Heaven the morning star, A bird, the loneliest of its kind,Hears Dawn's faint footfall from afar While all its ...
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 ...
In good old times, which means, you know,The time men wasted long ago,And we must blame our brains or moodIf ...
In town I hear, scarce wakened yet, My neighbor's clock behind the wallRecord the day's increasing debt, And _Cuckoo! Cuckoo!_ faintly call.Our ...
Woe worth the hour when it is crime To plead the poor dumb bondman's cause,When all that makes the heart sublime,The ...
Turbid from London's noise and smoke,Here I find air and quiet too;Air filtered through the beech and oak,Quiet by nothing ...
A PASTORALDAPHNIS _waiting_'O Dryad feet,Be doubly fleet,Timed to my heart's expectant beatWhile I await her!"At four," vowed she;'Tis scarcely three,Yet ...
Leaves fit to have been poor Juliet's cradle-rhyme,With gladness of a heart long quenched in mouldThey vibrate still, a nest ...
Unseen Musician, thou art sure to please, For those same notes in happier days I heardPoured by dear hands that long ...
While the slow clock, as they were miser's gold,Counts and recounts the mornward steps of Time,The darkness thrills with conscience ...
I was with thee in Heaven: I cannot tellIf years or moments, so the sudden bliss,When first we found, then ...
TO M.W., ON HER BIRTHDAYMaiden, when such a soul as thine is born,The morning-stars their ancient music make,And, joyful, once ...
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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