The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell LowellHoughton, Mifflin, 1896 - 492 páginas The present Cambridge Edition of Mr. Lowell's poems contains, substantially in the order established by the author, the poems included by him not long before his death in the definitive Riverside Edition of his writings, and in addition the small group contained in the Last Poems, collected by his literary executor, Mr. Charles Eliot Norton. - Publisher's note. |
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... sound in its judgment , that whether he was engaged in determining a reading in an Elizabethan dramatist or in deciding to which country an Irish colossus belonged , he was bringing his whole nature to the bench . No one can read ...
... sound in its judgment , that whether he was engaged in determining a reading in an Elizabethan dramatist or in deciding to which country an Irish colossus belonged , he was bringing his whole nature to the bench . No one can read ...
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... sounds of earth and air Melt into one low voice alone , That murmurs over the weary sea , And seems to sing from ... sound , The singing waves slide up the strand , And there , where the smooth , wet pebbles be , The waters gurgle ...
... sounds of earth and air Melt into one low voice alone , That murmurs over the weary sea , And seems to sing from ... sound , The singing waves slide up the strand , And there , where the smooth , wet pebbles be , The waters gurgle ...
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... sound , The stars are hid and the night is drear , The heart of silence throbs in thine ear , In thy chamber thou sittest alone , Alone , alone , ah woe ! alone ! The world is happy , the world is wide , Kind hearts are beating on every ...
... sound , The stars are hid and the night is drear , The heart of silence throbs in thine ear , In thy chamber thou sittest alone , Alone , alone , ah woe ! alone ! The world is happy , the world is wide , Kind hearts are beating on every ...
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... sound God's sea with earthly plummet , And find a bottom still of worthless clay ; Who heeds not how the lower gusts are working , Knowing that one sure wind blows on above , And sees , beneath the foulest faces lurking , One God ...
... sound God's sea with earthly plummet , And find a bottom still of worthless clay ; Who heeds not how the lower gusts are working , Knowing that one sure wind blows on above , And sees , beneath the foulest faces lurking , One God ...
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... sounds are out upon the breeze , And the leaves shiver in the trees , And then thou comest , Rosaline ! I seem to hear the mourners go , With long black garments trailing slow , And plumes anodding to and fro , As once I heard them ...
... sounds are out upon the breeze , And the leaves shiver in the trees , And then thou comest , Rosaline ! I seem to hear the mourners go , With long black garments trailing slow , And plumes anodding to and fro , As once I heard them ...
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The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell, Volumen1 James Russell Lowell Vista completa - 1911 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 68 - Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 'tis prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied.
Página 67 - Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,— Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Página 67 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right.1 And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
Página 106 - Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie ; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not. Over our manhood bend the skies ; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies ; With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its benedicite; And to our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea.
Página 219 - A fireplace filled the room's one side With half a cord o' wood in — There warn't no stoves (tell comfort died) To bake ye to a puddin'. The wa'nut logs shot sparkles out Towards the pootiest, bless her, An' leetle flames danced all about The chiny on the dresser.
Página 347 - Be proud! for she is saved, and all have helped to save her! She that lifts up the manhood of the poor, She of the open soul and open door, With room about her hearth for all mankind!
Página 220 - An' yit she gin her cheer a jerk Ez though she wished him furder, An' on her apples kep' to work, Parin
Página 111 - This water his blood that died on the tree; The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need ; Not what we give, but what we share, For the gift without the giver is bare ; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
Página 295 - Greatly begin ! though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime, — Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
Página 107 - Tis enough for us now that the leaves are green; We sit in the warm shade and feel right well How the sap creeps up and the blossoms swell; We may shut our eyes, but we cannot help knowing That skies are clear and grass is growing...