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 ...
SCENE I.--_Near a castle in Germany._'Twere no hard task, perchance, to win The popular laurel for my song;'Twere only to comply ...
Hail to the Man, whom sacred thirst of FameAmongst the stars enroll'd a shining Name!In whose great Soul Apollo fix'd ...
Sing thy Creator's praise, and ownHim greatest—wisest—God alone;He wraps himself in robes of light,And, clothed in garments pure and bright,Of ...
A sick man's chamber, though it often boastThe grateful presence of a literal toast,Can hardly claim, amidst its various wealth,The ...
Light my lone passage thro' this vale of life,And raise the seige of Care! This silent hourTo thee is sacred, ...
LANGUAGE is slow. The mastery of wantsDoth teach it to the infant, drop by drop,As brooklets gather.Years of studious toilUnfold ...
Fairies can hide anywhere,Up and down, and in and out,'Neath the cushion of a chair,In a teapot's empty spout;They can ...
I HEARD a Spirit singing as, beyond the morning winging,Its radiant form went swinging like a star:In its song prophetic ...
Love is our Reasons Paradox, which stillAgainst the judgment doth maintain the Will:And governs by such arbitrary laws,It onely makes ...
IHere in the self is all that man can knowOf Beauty, all the wonder, all the power,All the unearthly colour, ...
Pite, that I have sought so yore agooWith herte soore and ful of besy peyne,That in this world was never ...
A simple, sodded mound of earth, Without a line above it; With only daily votive flowers To prove that any love it: The token ...
IF truth give pleasure, surely we should try;To found our tales on what we can rely;Th' experiment repeatedly I've made,And ...
An Ode to be read on the laying of the foundationstone of the new Oglethorpe University,January, 1915, at Atlanta,GeorgiaIAS when ...
PULL off thy shoes, and make thy garments white,And sanctify thyself, ere thou dost dareApproach the throne of the dread ...
Ay me, to whom shall I my case complaine,That may compassion my impatient griefe!Or where shall I unfold my inward ...
How I succeed, you kindly ask;Yet set me on a grievous Task,When you oblige me to rehearse,The Censures past upon ...
Leagues north, as fly the gull and auk,Point Judith watches with eye of hawk;Leagues south, thy beacon flames, Montauk!Lonely and ...
NAUHAUGHT, the Indian deacon, who of oldDwelt, poor but blameless, where his narrowing CapeStretches its shrunk arm out to all ...
On Exodus iii. 14. "I am that I am."Man! foolish man!Scarce know'st thou how thyself began,Scarce hadst thou thought enough ...
Faith, 'tis good to see him comin' when the bell for Mass is flingin'Gladsome golden notes appealin' on the Sabbath-softened ...
Down by the Sutlej shore,Where sound the trumpet and the wild tum-tum,At winter's eve did comeA gaunt old northern lion, ...
The Brownie sits in the Scotchman's room,And eats his meat and drinks his ale,And beats the maid with her unused ...
OUR many years are made of clay and cloud, And quick desire is but as morning dew;And love and life, that ...
An angry Black woman on the subject of the angry White man:We didn't always need affirmative actionWhen we broke this ...
No, you don't quite get the meaning when the fun is at its heightWith the neighbours at the breakfast, and ...
Kneel down, fair Love, and fill thyself with tears,Girdle thyself with sighing for a girthUpon the sides of mirth,Cover thy ...
But yet creation's neither crammed nor blockedAbout by body: there's in things a void-Which to have known will serve thee ...
There is no cord, however strong, That time will not its fibers rend,Nor weary road, however long, But constant march will find ...
1640-1890.O river winding to the sea!We call the old time back to thee;From forest paths and water-waysThe century-woven veil we ...
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