Kettelopotomachia (James Russell Lowell Poems)
P. Ovidii Nasonis carmen heroicum macaronicum perplexametrum, interGetas getico moro compostum, denuo per medium ardentispiritualemadjuvante mensa diabolice obsessa, recuperatum, curaque ...
James Russell Lowell Poems (230 Poems)
L’Envoi (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Whether my heart hath wiser grown or not,In these three years, since I to thee inscribed,Mine own betrothed, the firstlings ...
The Ghost-Seer (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Ye who, passing graves by night,Glance not to the left or right,Lest a spirit should arise,Cold and white, to freeze ...
An Interview With Miles Standish (James Russell Lowell Poems)
I sat one evening in my room, In that sweet hour of twilightWhen blended thoughts, half light, half gloom, Throng through the ...
Ode Recited At The Harvard Commemoratio (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Weak-Winged is Song,Nor aims at that clear-ethered heightWhither the brave deed climbs for lightWe seem to do them wrong,Bringing our ...
The Biglow Papers (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Thrash away, you'll _hev_ to rattle On them kittle-drums o' yourn,--'Taint a knowin' kind o' cattle Thet is ketched with mouldy corn;Put ...
The Present Crisis (James Russell Lowell Poems)
When a deed is done for Freedom, through the broad earth's aching breastRuns a thrill of joy prophetic, trembling on ...
Leaving the Matter Open: A Tale By Homer Wilbur, A.M. (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Two brothers once, an ill-matched pair,Together dwelt (no matter where),To whom an Uncle Sam, or some one,Had left a house ...
An Invitation (James Russell Lowell Poems)
TO J F HNine years have slipt like hour-glass sandFrom life's still-emptying globe away,Since last, dear friend, I clasped your ...
Ode To Happiness (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Spirit, that rarely comest now And only to contrast my gloom, Like rainbow-feathered birds that bloomA moment on some autumn boughThat, with ...
The Debate In The Sennit (James Russell Lowell Poems)
SOT TO A NUSRY RHYME'Here we stan' on the Constitution, by thunder! It's a fact o' wich ther's bushils o' proofs;Fer ...
Studies For Two Heads (James Russell Lowell Poems)
ISome sort of heart I know is hers,-- I chanced to feel her pulse one night;A brain she has that never ...
Two Scenes From The Life Of Blondel (James Russell Lowell Poems)
SCENE I.--_Near a castle in Germany._'Twere no hard task, perchance, to win The popular laurel for my song;'Twere only to comply ...
The Singing Leaves (James Russell Lowell Poems)
A BALLADI'What fairings will ye that I bring?' Said the King to his daughters three;'For I to Vanity Fair am bound,Now ...
Memoriae Positum: R G Shaw (James Russell Lowell Poems)
I Beneath the trees, My lifelong friends in this dear spot, Sad now for eyes that see them not, I hear the autumnal breezeWake ...
At The Commencement Dinner (James Russell Lowell Poems)
IN ACKNOWLEDGING A TOAST TO THE SMITH PROFESSORI rise, Mr. Chairman, as both of us know,With the impromptu I promised ...
On The Death Of A Friend’s Child (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Death never came so nigh to me before,Nor showed me his mild face: oft had I musedOf calm and peace ...
The Growth Of A Legend (James Russell Lowell Poems)
A FRAGMENTA legend that grew in the forest's hushSlowly as tear-drops gather and gush,When a word some poet chanced to ...
The Black Preacher: A Breton Legend (James Russell Lowell Poems)
At Carnac in Brittany, close on the bay,They show you a church, or rather the grayRibs of a dead one, ...
To The Future (James Russell Lowell Poems)
O Land of Promise! from what Pisgah's height Can I behold thy stretch of peaceful bowers,Thy golden harvests flowing out of ...
The Pious Editor’s Creed (James Russell Lowell Poems)
I du believe in Freedom's cause, Ez fur away ez Payris is;I love to see her stick her claws In them infarnal ...
Arcadia Rediviva (James Russell Lowell Poems)
I, walking the familiar street, While a crammed horse-car jingled through it,Was lifted from my prosy feet And in Arcadia ere I ...
Al Fresco (James Russell Lowell Poems)
The dandelions and buttercupsGild all the lawn; the drowsy beeStumbles among the clover-tops,And summer sweetens all but me:Away, unfruitful lore ...
Extreme Unction (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Go! leave me, Priest; my soul would be Alone with the consoler, Death;Far sadder eyes than thine will see This crumbling clay ...
Tempura Mutantur (James Russell Lowell Poems)
The world turns mild; democracy, they say,Rounds the sharp knobs of character away,And no great harm, unless at grave expenseOf ...
Elegy On The Death Of Dr. Channing (James Russell Lowell Poems)
I do not come to weep above thy pall, And mourn the dying-out of noble powers,The poet's clearer eye should see, ...
A Letter from a Candidate for the Presidency (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Dear Sir—You wish to know my notionsOn sartin pints thet rile the land;There's nothin' thet my natur so shunsEs bein' ...
Truth And Falsehood (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good ...
Anti-Apis (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Praisest Law, friend? We, too, love it much as they that love it best;'Tis the deep, august foundation, whereon Peace ...
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 ...