Sonnett – IV (James Russell Lowell Poems)
'For this true nobleness I seek in vain,In woman and in man I find it not;I almost weary of my ...
'For this true nobleness I seek in vain,In woman and in man I find it not;I almost weary of my ...
Beloved, in the noisy city here,The thought of thee can make all turmoil cease;Around my spirit, folds thy spirit clearIts ...
The wisest man could ask no more of FateThan to be simple, modest, manly, true,Safe from the Many, honoured by ...
I would not have this perfect love of oursGrow from a single root, a single stem,Bearing no goodly fruit, but ...
THE SAME CONCLUDEDFar 'yond this narrow parapet of Time,With eyes uplift, the poet's soul should lookInto the Endless Promise, nor ...
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 ...
'And how could you dream of meeting?' Nay, how can you ask me, sweet?All day my pulse had been beating The tune ...
We will speak on; we will be heard; Though all earth's systems crack, We will not bate a single word, Nor take a ...
I have a fancy: how shall I bring itHome to all mortals wherever they be?Say it or sing it? Shoe ...
I cannot think that thou shouldst pass away,Whose life to mine is an eternal law,A piece of nature that can ...
The path from me to you that led, Untrodden long, with grass is grown,Mute carpet that his lieges spread Before the Prince ...
These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred,Each softly lucent as a rounded moon;The diver Omar plucked them from ...
I could not bear to see those eyesOn all with wasteful largess shine,And that delight of welcome riseLike sunshine strained ...
I watched a moorland torrent run Down through the rift itself had made,Golden as honey in the sun, Of darkest amber in ...
Oh, tell me less or tell me more,Soft eyes with mystery at the core,That always seem to melt my ownFrankly ...
Walking alone where we walked together, When June was breezy and blue,I watch in the gray autumnal weather The leaves fall inconstant ...
She gave me all that woman can,Nor her soul's nunnery forego,A confidence that man to manWithout remorse can never show.Rare ...
RECUERDO DE MADRIDSilencioso por la puertaVoy de su casa desiertaDo siempre feliz entre,Y la encuentro en vano abiertaCual la boca ...
IN vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing;The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will ...
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