The Poet and the Man: Recollections and Appreciations of James Russell Lowell

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Lee and Shepard, 1893 - 136 páginas
 

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Página 66 - Rat-tat-tat-tattle thru the street I hear the drummers makin' riot, An' I set thinkin' o' the feet Thet follered once an' now are quiet, — White feet ez snowdrops innercent, Thet never knowed the paths o' Satan, Whose comin' step ther' 's ears thet won't, No, not lifelong, leave off awaitin'.
Página 67 - Wut's words to them whose faith an' truth On War's red techstone rang true metal, Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the gret prize o' death in battle? To him who, deadly hurt, agen Flashed on afore the charge's thunder, Tippin' with fire the bolt of men Thet rived the Rebel line asunder?
Página 37 - That is, A Series of Jokes By a Wonderful Quiz, | who accompanies himself with a rub-a-dub-dub, full of spirit and grace, | on the top of the tub. | Set forth in | October, the 21st day, in the year '48: GP Putnam, Broadway.
Página 57 - In short, we really laughed, and real laughter is a thing as rare as real tears. I must say, too, there was a heart, — a kindly feeling prevailed over the party. Can London give such a dinner ? It may, but I never saw one ; they are too cold and critical to be so easily pleased.
Página 20 - Great white-topped wagons, each drawn by double files of six or eight horses, with its dusty bucket swinging from the hinder axle, and its grim bull-dog trotting silent underneath, or in midsummer panting on the lofty perch beside the driver, (how elevated thither baffled conjecture,) brought all the wares and products of the country to their mart and seaport in Boston.
Página 39 - Life," he said ; And ere I answered, passing out of sight, On his celestial embassy he sped. 'Twas at thy door, O friend ! and not at mine, The angel with the amaranthine wreath, Pausing, descended, and with voice divine, Whispered a word that had a sound like Death. Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, A shadow on those features fair and thin ; And softly, from that hushed and darkened rooni, Two angels issued, where but one went in.
Página 67 - em growin', Three likely lads ez wal could be, Hahnsome an' brave an' not tu knowin' ? I set an' look into the blaze Whose natur', jes' like theirn, keeps climbin', Ez long 'z it lives, in shinin' ways, An' naif despise myself for rhymin'.
Página 19 - Common, with ample elbow-room, and old women, capped and spectacled, still peered through the same windows from which they had watched Lord Percy's artillery rumble by to Lexington, or caught a glimpse of the handsome Virginia General who had come to wield our homespun Saxon chivalry.
Página 79 - Don't bother yourself with any sympathy for me under my supposed sufferings from critics. I don't need it in the least. If a man does anything good, the world always finds it out, sooner or later ; and if he doesn't, why, the world finds that out too — and ought to.
Página 96 - To turn the world's laborious wheels. • No more than doth the miller there, Shut in our several cells, do we Know with what waste of beauty rare Moves every day's machinery. Surely the wiser time shall come When this fine overplus of might, No longer sullen, slow, and dumb, Shall leap to music and to light. In that new childhood of the Earth Life of itself shall dance and play, Fresh blood in rime's shrunk veins make mirth, And labor meet delight half-way.

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