The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell ...: Complete in Two Volumes, Volumen2Ticknor and Fields, 1863 |
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... natural features - but , then , one has no rest ; You just catch a glimpse of some ravishing dis- tance , When a jolt puts the whole of it out of existence , —— Why not use their ears , if they happen to have any ? " -Here the laurel ...
... natural features - but , then , one has no rest ; You just catch a glimpse of some ravishing dis- tance , When a jolt puts the whole of it out of existence , —— Why not use their ears , if they happen to have any ? " -Here the laurel ...
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... natural pace ! He follows as close as a stick to a rocket , His fingers exploring the prophet's each pocket . Fie , for shame , brother bard ; with good fruit of your own , Can't you let neighbor Emerson's orchards alone ? Besides ...
... natural pace ! He follows as close as a stick to a rocket , His fingers exploring the prophet's each pocket . Fie , for shame , brother bard ; with good fruit of your own , Can't you let neighbor Emerson's orchards alone ? Besides ...
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... natural grace of its own , And enough of it , too , if he'd let it alone ; But he twitches and jerks so , one fairly gets tired , And is forced to forgive where he might have ad mired ; Yet whenever it slips away free and unlaced , It ...
... natural grace of its own , And enough of it , too , if he'd let it alone ; But he twitches and jerks so , one fairly gets tired , And is forced to forgive where he might have ad mired ; Yet whenever it slips away free and unlaced , It ...
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... natural progress keep out of the Churches , And expected the lines they had drawn to prevail With the fast - rising tide to keep out of their pale ; They had formerly dammed the Pontifical See , And the same thing , they thought , would ...
... natural progress keep out of the Churches , And expected the lines they had drawn to prevail With the fast - rising tide to keep out of their pale ; They had formerly dammed the Pontifical See , And the same thing , they thought , would ...
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... natural gifts as a bard , Broke the strings of his lyre out by striking too hard , And cracked half the notes of a truly fine voice , Because song drew less instant attention than noise . Ah , men do not know how much strength is in ...
... natural gifts as a bard , Broke the strings of his lyre out by striking too hard , And cracked half the notes of a truly fine voice , Because song drew less instant attention than noise . Ah , men do not know how much strength is in ...
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Página 104 - 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 171 - GUVENER B. is a sensible man; He stays to his home an' looks arter his folks; He draws his furrer ez straight ez he can, An' into nobody's tater-patch pokes; — But John P. Robinson he Sez he wunt vote fer Guvener B. My! aint it terrible? Wut shall we du? We can't never choose him, o...
Página 152 - S jest to make him fill its pus. Want to tackle me in, du ye? I expect you'll hev to wait; Wen cold lead puts daylight thru ye You'll begin to kal'late; S'pose the crows wun't fall to pickin' All the carkiss from your bones, Coz you helped to give a lickin' To them poor half-Spanish drones? Jest go home an...
Página 184 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Página 60 - T is as if a rough oak that for ages had stood, With his gnarled bony branches like ribs of the wood, Should bloom, after cycles of struggle and scathe, With a single anemone trembly and rathe ; His strength is so tender, his...
Página 105 - An' yit she gin her cheer a jerk Ez though she wished him furder, An' on her apples kep' to work, Parin
Página 61 - I'd lay any bet that, without ever quitting Their box, they'd be all, to a man, for acquitting. He has drawn you one character, though, that is new, One wildflower he's plucked that is wet with the dew Of this fresh Western world...
Página 44 - C. labors to get at the centre, and then Take a reckoning from there of his actions and men ; E. calmly assumes the said centre as granted, And, given himself, has whatever is wanted.
Página 81 - There's Holmes, who is matchless among you for wit ; A Leyden-jar always full-charged, from which flit The electrical tingles of hit after hit ; In long poems...
Página 151 - Trainin' round in bobtail coats, — But it's curus Christian dooty This 'ere cuttin' folks's throats. They may talk o' Freedom's airy Tell they're pupple in the face,^ It's a grand gret cemetary Fer the barthrights of our race; They jest want this Californy So's to lug new slave-states in To abuse ye, an' to scorn ye, An