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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Keyword: james russell lowell Matches Found: 456 A CHIPPEWA LEGEND, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old chief, feeling now well-nigh his end Last Line: Ugly and fierce, to hide among the woods. Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America A CONTRAST, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy love thou sentest oft to me Last Line: And offering grace, though still denied. Subject(s): Love A FABLE FOR CRITICS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Phoebus, sitting one day in a laurel-tree's shade Last Line: I, too, snatched my notes and forthwith disappeared. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers A FAMILIAR EPISTLE TO A FRIEND, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alike I hate to be your debtor Last Line: Is it the subject's fault, or mine? A FOREBODING, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What were the whole void world, if thou wert dead Last Line: That the dumb turf I tread on seems to sing. A GLANCE BEHIND THE CURTAIN, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We see but half the causes of our deeds Last Line: An arm of tougher sinew than the sword. Subject(s): Religion; Theology A LEGEND OF BRITTANY: PART 1, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair as a summer dream was margaret Last Line: To lengthen to the last a sunny mood. A LEGEND OF BRITTANY: PART 2, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As one who, from the sunshine and the green Last Line: From souls upspringing to celestial hall. A MISCONCEPTION, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: B, taught by pope to do his good by stealth Last Line: Does himself all the good he can by stealing. Subject(s): Politics & Government; Venality A MOOD, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I go to the ridge in the forest Last Line: Wreck of a broken life? A NEW YEAR'S GREETING, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The century numbers fourscore years Last Line: Down to their mates blow! Subject(s): Holidays; New Year A PARABLE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Worn and footsore was the prophet Last Line: "she had plucked and brought to me." A PARABLE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said christ our lord, 'I will go and see' Last Line: "the images ye have made of me!" A PARABLE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An ass munched thistles, while a nightingale Last Line: "nor mete we listeners by their length of ear." A PRAYER, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God! Do not let my loved one die Last Line: Her soul and mine shall closer be. Subject(s): Prayer A REQUIEM, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, pale and silent maiden Last Line: Is present in my heart. A WELCOME TO LOWELL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take our hands, james russell lowell Last Line: I speak for comrades dead! Subject(s): Diplomacy And Diplomats; Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891); Poetry & Poets A WINTER-EVENING HYMN TO MY FIRE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty on my hearth-stone blazing! Last Line: And I bow down in silence, shadowy hosts! Subject(s): Fireplaces A YOUTHFUL EXPERIMENT IN ENGLISH HEXAMETERS: IMPRESSIONS OF HOMER, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes come pauses of calm, when the rapt bard, holding his heart back Last Line: Swaying the listener's fantasy hither and thither like driftweed. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Iliad; Odyssey ABOVE AND BELOW, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O dwellers in the valley-land Last Line: And following that is finding him. ABSENCE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep is death's image, -- poets tell us so Last Line: Then vanishes, to multiply my loss. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation AFTER THE BURIAL, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, faith is a goodly anchor Last Line: And argues your wisdom down. Subject(s): Faith; Grief; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness AGASSIZ, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The electric nerve, whose instantaneous thrill Last Line: Than ours whose sense familiar wont makes numb. Subject(s): Agassiz, Louis (1807-1873); Friendship; Science; Scientists AGRO-DOLCE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One kiss from all others prevents me Last Line: The sunshine and shade of my day. Subject(s): Kisses AL FRESCO, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dandelions and buttercups Last Line: Their dwelling here for memory's sake. Subject(s): Nature ALADDIN, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a beggarly boy Last Line: For I own no more castles in spain! ALL-SAINTS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One feast, of holy days the crest Last Line: And sweetness of the farther shore. Subject(s): All Saints' Day; Allhallowmas; Allhallows ALLEGRA, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would more natures were like thine Last Line: In gazing on the brilliancy. AMAZONS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Round their bright queen, hippolyte the fair AMBROSE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never, surely, was holier man Last Line: As he fell on his knees beneath the tree. AMERICA'S GOSPEL, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion AN AUTOGRAPH, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the wet sands an insect crept Last Line: Shall 'scape oblivion's broom so long? Subject(s): Autographs; Fossils; Thought; Thinking AN EMBER PICTURE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How strange are the freaks of memory Last Line: For is it not all a dream? Subject(s): Friendship; Memory AN EPISTLE TO GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Curtis whose wit, with fancy arm in arm Last Line: My moorings to the past snap one by one. Subject(s): Curtis, George William (1824-1892); Friendship AN INCIDENT IN A RAILROAD CAR, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He spoke of burns: men rude and rough Last Line: Who live and speak for aye. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets AN INCIDENT OF THE FIRE AT HAMBURG, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tower of old saint nicholas soared upward to the skies Last Line: "pealed forth the grand old german hymn, -- ""all good souls, praise the lord!" Subject(s): Fire; Hamburg, Germany AN INDIAN SUMMER REVERIE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What visionary tints the year puts on Last Line: And without her the impoverished seasons roll. Subject(s): Indian Summer AN INTERVIEW WITH MILES STANDISH, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sat one evening in my room Last Line: And he will print my ditty. Subject(s): Plymouth, Massachusetts; Standish, Miles (1584-1656) AN INVITATION, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nine years have slipt like hour-glass sand Last Line: The orange lifts its golden moons. AN ODE FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1876, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Entranced I saw a vision in the cloud Last Line: Shall not be unbeloved of thee. Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Independence Day AN ORIENTAL APOLOGUE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere in india, upon a time Last Line: Forever for the people's good should spin. Subject(s): India AND THEY WHO DO THEIR SOULS NO WRONG, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography ANTI-APIS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Praisest law, friend? We, too, love it Last Line: Lo! The skulking wild fox scratches in a little heap of dust. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty ANTI-TEXAS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O spirit of the noble past, when the old bay state was free ANTIPHONOUS - ANTISTROPHE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Could we be conscious but as dreamers be AT THE BURNS CENTENNIAL, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred years! They're quickly fled Last Line: Makes man of prince and peasant! Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets AT THE COMMENCEMENT DINNER, ACKNOWLEDGING TOAST TO THE SMITH PROFESSOR, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I rise, mr. Chairman, as both of us know Last Line: Which is that of my founder — the late mr. Smith. Subject(s): Smith College AUF WIEDERSEHEN! SUMMER, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little gate was reached at last Last Line: "she said, -- ""auf wiedersehen!" Subject(s): Absence; Summer; Separation; Isolation AUSPEX, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart, I cannot still it Last Line: The poet and his song. Subject(s): Birds; Old Age BANKSIDE; HOME OF EDMUND QUINCY, DEDHAM, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I christened you in happier days, before Last Line: Nor public office a tramps' boosing-ken. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Houses; Quincy, Edmund (1808-1877); Dead, The BE NOT SIMPLY GOOD, BUT GOOD FOR SOMETHING, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography BEAUTY AND TRUTH AND ALL THAT THESE CONTAIN, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography BEAVER BROOK, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hushed with broad sunlight lies the hill Last Line: And labor meet delight half-way. Subject(s): Brooks; Waverly, Massachusetts; Streams; Creeks BELLEROPHON (DEDICATED TO MY FRIEND, JOHN F. HEATH), by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I feel the bandages unroll BIBLIOLATRES, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bowing thyself in dust before a book Last Line: Still at the prophets' feet the nations sit. Subject(s): Books; Religion; Reading; Theology BIGLOW PAPERS, SELS., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): History BIGLOW PAPERS. 2D SER.: 8. KETTELOPOTOMACHIA, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Punctorum garretos colens et cellara quinque Last Line: Watchmanus inscios ast calybooso deinde reponit BIGLOW PAPERS: LETTER ... TO JOSEPH T. BUCKINGHAM, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mister eddyter, our hosea wuz down Last Line: Ef there's thousands o' my mind Subject(s): Military Service, Voluntary; Slavery; Soldiers; U.s. - Mexican War (1846-1848) BIRTHDAY VERSES; WRITTEN IN A CHILD'S ALBUM, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas sung of old in hut and hall Last Line: Into the inexorable sea. Subject(s): Birthdays BLESSING SHE IS; GOD MAKE HER SO, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography BOBOLINK, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anacreon of the meadow Subject(s): Birds BON VOYAGE!, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ship, blest to bear such freight across the blue Last Line: And tempt the nautilus his cruise to dare! Subject(s): Sea Voyages BOYHOOD OF COLUMBUS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know not when this hope enthralled me first Subject(s): Italy BUILDING THE FUTURE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O truth! O freedom! How are ye still born BUSY WORLD ... ASIDE, FR. A GLANCE BEHIND THE CURTAIN, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography CHANGED PERSPECTIVE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Full oft the pathway to her door Last Line: T is so much longer coming back! CHURCH, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love the rites of england's church CLASS POEM, SELS., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Social Protest COLUMBUS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cordage creaks and rattles in the wind Last Line: Is more than time enough to find a world. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Courage; Explorers; Valor; Bravery; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COMMEMORATION ODE READ AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weak-winged is song Last Line: But ask whatever else, and we will dare! Variant Title(s): Ode Recited At The Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865 Subject(s): American Civil War; Courage; Harvard University; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Peace; Presidents, United States; United States - History; Valor; Bravery CREDIDIMUS JOVEM REGNARE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O days endeared to every muse Last Line: Make door and lock to match the key? Subject(s): God DARA, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When persia's sceptre trembled in a hand Last Line: Two added provinces blest dara's sway. Subject(s): Iran; Persia DAS EWIG-WEIBLICHE (THE ETERNAL FEMININE), by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How was I worthy so divine a loss Last Line: And not a shadow stain heaven's crystal floor. Subject(s): Consolation DEATH OF QUEEN MERCEDES, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hers all that earth could promise or bestow Last Line: Knowing what life is, what our humankind? DEDICATION TO A YEAR'S LIFE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gentle una I have loved DEPARTED, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not they alone are the departed DIRGE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poet! Lonely is thy bed DISAPPOINTMENT, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pray thee call not this society DOCTOR LOBSTER, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A perch, who had the toothache, once E.G. DE R., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why should I seek her spell to decompose Last Line: All these are good, but better far is she. Subject(s): Friendship ELEANOR MAKES MACAROONS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light of triumph in her eyes Last Line: Eleanor's dear macaroons! Subject(s): Macaroons ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF DR. CHANNING, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not come to weep above thy pall Last Line: For us weep rather thou in calm divine! Subject(s): Channing, William Ellery (1780-1842); Religion; Theology ENDYMION; A MYSTICAL COMMENT ON TITIAN'S 'SACRED AND PROFANE LOVE', by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My day began not till the twilight fell Last Line: My heaven's queen, — queen, too, of my earth and hell! Subject(s): Love; Titian (1490-1576); Vecelli, Tiziano; Vecellio, Tiziano EPITAPH, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What means this glozing epitaph ESTRANGEMENT, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The path from me to you that led Last Line: Where murmuring bees your name repeat. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation EURYDICE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven's cup held down to me I drain Last Line: To find but one word, -- nevermore. Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph) EXTREME UNCTION, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go! Leave me, priest; my soul would be Last Line: The image of the god is gone. FACT OR FANCY?, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In town I hear, scarce wakened yet Last Line: Unbodied, like the cuckoo's song. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Time FANCIES ABOUT A ROSEBUD (PRESSED IN AN OLD COPY OF SPENSER), by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who prest you here? The past can tell FANCY'S CASUISTRY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How struggles with the tempest's swells Last Line: Unspotted raiment. FANTASY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Round and round me she waved swinging FAREWELL, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell! As the bee round the blossom FEELING, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flowers and the grass to me FITZ ADAM'S STORY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The next whose fortune 'twas a tale to tell Last Line: "you 'll find him if you go to trenton falls." FLOWERS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When, from a pleasant ramble, home FOR AN AUTOGRAPH, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though old the thought and oft exprest Last Line: And scrawl, as I do here, a name. Subject(s): Autographs; Life; Religion; Theology FORGETFULNESS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a haven of sure rest FOURTH OF JULY ODE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our fathers fought for liberty Last Line: But ourselves must set us free. Subject(s): American Revolution; Fourth Of July; Independence Day FRANCISCUS DE VERULAMIO SIC COGITAVIT', by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That's a rather bold speech, my lord FRANKNESS OF NATURE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When in a book I find a pleasant thought Subject(s): Nature; Transcendentalism FREEDOM (1), by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are we, then, wholly fallen? Can it be Last Line: To europe, entering her blood-red eclipse. Subject(s): Freedom; Patriotism; Liberty FREEDOM (2), by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men! Whose boast it is that ye Last Line: In the right with two or three. Variant Title(s): Sung At The Anti-slavery Picnic In Dedham;stanzas On Freedom Subject(s): Freedom; Slavery; Liberty; Serfs FREEDOM (3), by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are not free: freedom doth not consist Subject(s): Courage GENERAL GRANT, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strong, simple, silent are the steadfast laws Variant Title(s): On A Bust Of General Gran Subject(s): Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885) GOD WITH US, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O power more near my life than life itself GODMINSTER CHIMES; IN AID CHIME OF BELLS FOR CHRIST CHURCH, CAMBRIDGE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Godminster? Is it fancy's play Last Line: And hear my son in heaven! Subject(s): Bells; Cambridge, Massachusetts GOE, LITTLE BOOKE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, little book! The world is wide Subject(s): Books GOLD EGG: A DREAM-FANTASY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I swam with undulation soft Last Line: Because you seek within you? Subject(s): Beauty GRACIOUS PAST, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In june 'tis good to lie beneath a tree Subject(s): Friendship HAKON'S LAY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then thorstein looked at hakon, where he sate HAND IN HAND, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My friend, adown life's valley, hand in hand HARVARD COMMEMORATION ODE, SELS., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whither leads the path Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day HEBE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the twinkle of white feet Last Line: To pour for thee the cup of honor. Subject(s): Hebe (goddess Of Youth And Spring) HER FITTEST TRIUMPH IS TO SHOW THAT GOOD., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography HERO NEW, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forgive me if from the present things I turn HIS THRONE IS WITH THE OUTCAST, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I followed where they led Subject(s): Jesus Christ HOB GOBBLING'S SONG, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not far from titania's court do I HUNGER AND COLD, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sisters two, all praise to you Last Line: Hunger and cold! I DO BELIEVE IN FREEDOM'S CAUSE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography IANTHE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a light within her eyes IMPARTIALITY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot say a scene is fair IN A COPY OF OMAR KHAYYAM, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These pearls of thought in persian gulfs were bred Last Line: Groping, you may like omar grasp a pearl. Subject(s): Omar Khayyam (1048-1122); Writing & Writers IN AN ALBUM, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The misspelt scrawl, upon the wall Last Line: "in vain, ""this lowell, who was he?" Subject(s): Books; Reading IN ARCADIA, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, walking the familiar street Last Line: "find your old beauty in your lover's." Variant Title(s): Arcadia Rediviva Subject(s): Arcadians; Arcadia IN HOC SIGNO, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And if his church be doubtful, it is sure IN SADNESS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is not in this life of ours IN THE HALF-WAY HOUSE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At twenty we fancied the blest middle ages Last Line: And still climb the dream-tree for — ashes and dust! Subject(s): Time IN THE TWILIGHT, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men say the sullen instrument Last Line: Long ago! Subject(s): Nostalgia INSCRIPTION FOR A BELL AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I call as fly the irrevocable hours Last Line: Even as men choose, they either give or take. Subject(s): Cornell University INSCRIPTION FOR A MEMORIAL WINDOW TO SIR WALTER RALEIGH, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The new world's sons, from england's breasts we drew Last Line: This window we inscribe with raleigh's name. Subject(s): Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618) INSCRIPTION PROPOSED FOR A SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' MONUMENT IN BOSTON, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To those who died for her on land and sea Last Line: In lives like theirs, at duty's summons spent. Subject(s): Boston; Monuments INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In vain we call old notions fudge Last Line: And stealing will continue stealing. Variant Title(s): Stealing Subject(s): Copyright INVITA MINERVA, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bardling came where by a river grew Last Line: "makes mortal breath than time and fate more strong." IRENE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hers is a spirit deep, and crystal-clear Last Line: Earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected. ISABEL, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the leaf upon the tree IT MAY BE GLORIOUS TO WRITE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Steept in the muses' youthful, sultry maze Last Line: Where rosaline met ancient britomart. Subject(s): Diplomacy & Diplomats; Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891); Poetry & Poets JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I left my door Last Line: And parry & deal the thunderstroke. Subject(s): Diplomacy & Diplomats; Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891); Poetry & Poets JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou shouldst have sung the swan-song for the choir Last Line: And grateful memory guard thy leafy shrine! Subject(s): Diplomacy & Diplomats; Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891); Poetry & Poets JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From purest wells of english undefiled Last Line: And mine of battle overthrew them all. Subject(s): Diplomacy And Diplomats; Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891); Poetry & Poets JEFFRIES WYMAN; DIED SEPTEMBER 4, 1874, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wisest man could ask no more of fate Last Line: Fans the soul's nobler faith until it burn. Subject(s): Friendship; Wyman, Jeffries (1814-1874) JOSEPH WINLOCK; DIED JUNE 11, 1875, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shy soul and stalwart, man of patient will Last Line: Unprescient, through god's mercy, of his own! Subject(s): Friendship; Winlock, Joseph (1826-1875) JOTTINGS FOR SPORTSMEN, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As one lamp lights another, nor grows less JOYS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We may shut our eyes KOSSUTH, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A race of nobles may die out Last Line: "sounds on, outliving chains and death." Subject(s): Courage; Kossuth, Louis (1802-1894); Valor; Bravery L'ENVOI, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether my heart hath wiser grown or not Last Line: In spirit and the love of holy things. L'ENVOI; TO THE MUSE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whither? Albeit I follow fast Last Line: "transcends the singer's deepest skill!" LINES; SUGGESTED BY GRAVES TWO ENGLISH SOLDIERS ON CONCORD, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The same good blood that now-refills Last Line: Your graves send courage forth, and might. Subject(s): American Revolution; Concord, Massachusetts LONGING, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the myriad moods of mind Last Line: Howe'er we fail in action. Subject(s): Longing LONGING IS GOD'S FRESH HEAVENWARD WILL, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography LOST CHILD, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wandered down the sunny glade Subject(s): Children - Lost LOVE'S ALTAR, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I built an altar in my soul LOVE'S CLOCK; A PASTORAL, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O dryad feet Last Line: "and love's watch loses?" Subject(s): Love LOVE-DREAM, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pleasant thoughts come wandering LOVE-SONG, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nearer to thy mother-heart LOVER, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go from the world from east to west MAHMOOD THE IMAGE-BREAKER, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old events have modern meanings; only that survives Last Line: Fifty times the brahmins' offer deluged all the floor. MASACCIO (IN THE BRANCACCI CHAPEL), by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He came to florence long ago Last Line: Shall silently be drained to you! Subject(s): Masaccio (1401-1428); Paintings & Painters; Tommaso Di Giovanni Di Simone Guidi MEMORLAE POSITUM; R. G. S., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the trees Last Line: And die as thine have done! Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History MIDNIGHT, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon shines white and silent Last Line: Of immortality! MONNA LISA, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She gave me all that woman can Last Line: Makes it seem sweeter to be hers! Subject(s): Mona Lisa MUSIC, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I seem to lie with drooping eyes MY COUNTRY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O beautiful my country! Ours once more! MY LOVE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not as all other women are Last Line: Sweet homes wherein to live and die. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; White, Maria; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY PORTRAIT GALLERY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oft round my hall of portraiture I gaze Last Line: Woven of that light that rose on easter morning. Subject(s): Portraits MYSTICAL BALLAD, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sunset scarce had dimmed away Subject(s): Immortality NEW YEAR'S EVE, 1844, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night is calm and beautiful; the snow NEW YEAR'S EVE, 1850, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the midnight of the century, - hark Last Line: Yet by one sun is every orbit bent. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NIGHTWATCHES, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While the slow clock, as they were miser's gold Last Line: Half of that world I ever cared to please! Subject(s): Time NOBLER LOVER, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If he be a nobler lover, take him! O MOTHER STATE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Courage ODE OF THANKS FOR CERTAIN CIGARS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Luck, my dear norton, still makes shifts Subject(s): Smoking ODE READ AT 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF FIGHT AT CONCORD BRIDGE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who cometh over the hills Last Line: And makes us deserve to be free! Subject(s): American Revolution; Concord, Massachusetts ODE TO FRANCE (FEBRUARY, 1848), by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As, flake by flake, the beetling avalanches Last Line: Of brotherhood and right. Subject(s): France; French Revolution (1848); February Revolution ODE TO HAPPINESS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit, that rarely comest now Last Line: "but won by silent fortitude." Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight ODE: 1, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the old days of awe and keen-eyed wonder Last Line: To cheer and guide the mariner at night. ODE: 2, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But now the poet is an empty rhymer Last Line: To hear a mortal like an angel sing. ODE: 3, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the toil-worn poor my soul is seeking Last Line: Shatters the blueness of a sky serene. ODE; FOR THE CELEBRATION OF ... COCHITUATE WATER INTO BOSTON, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My name is water: I have sped Last Line: That never will make slaves of you. Subject(s): Boston; Water ON A PORTRAIT OF DANTE BY GIOTTO, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can this be thou who, lean and pale Last Line: Like thine, scarred veteran of a lifelong war! Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Giotto Di Bondone (1276-1337); Portraits ON AN AUTUMN SKETCH OF H.G. WILD, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thanks to the artist, ever on my wall Last Line: Even with a cloud whose light were yet to lose! Subject(s): Friendship; Portraits ON BOARD THE '76; WRITTEN FOR BRYANT'S SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our ship lay tumbling in an angry sea Last Line: Himself our bravest crown. Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Poetry & Poets; Sea; Ocean ON BURNING SOME OLD LETTERS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With what odorous woods and spices Last Line: Love, and teach men what it meant. Subject(s): Letters ON PLANTING A TREE AT INVERARA, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who does his duty is a question Last Line: So may the statelier of argyll! Subject(s): Friendship; Trees ON RECEIVING A COPY OF MR. AUSTIN DOBSON'S 'OLD WORLD IDYLLS', by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At length arrived, your book I take ON THE CAPTURE OF CERTAIN FUGITIVE SLAVES NEAR WASHINGTON, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look on who will in apathy, and stifle they who can Last Line: Erelong the great avenger takes the work from out his hands. Subject(s): Freedom; Slavery; Liberty; Serfs ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEND'S CHILD, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death never came so nigh to me before Last Line: Doth waken thy beloved with a kiss. Subject(s): Death - Children; Religion; Death - Babies; Theology ON THE DEATH OF CHARLES T. TORREY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woe worth the hour when it is crime Last Line: His mercy to the oppressor's heart. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Torrey, Charles Turner (1813-1846); Antislavery Movement - United States OPENING POEM TO A YEAR'S LIFE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hope first the youthful poet leads OUR COUNTRY SAVED, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boom, cannon, boom to all the winds and waves! Subject(s): Fourth Of July OUR LIVES SHOULD WIDEN, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why should we ever weary of this life? Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 8; Sonne Subject(s): Life OUT OF DOORS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis good to be abroad in the sun PALINODE; AUTUMN, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still thirteen years: 'tis autumn now Last Line: "floats down, -- ""auf wiedersehen!" Subject(s): Absence; Autumn; Seasons; Separation; Isolation; Fall PAOLO TO FRANCESCA, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was with thee in heaven: I cannot tell Last Line: For, given thy nearness, nothing is denied. PEACE ON EARTH, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What means this glory round our feet Last Line: "to-day the prince of peace is born!" Variant Title(s): A Christmas Carol For The Sunday-school Children Of Church Of The Disciples Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Peace PESSIOPTIMISM, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye little think what toil it was to build Last Line: And wade the drain-drenched shoals of daily print. PHOEBE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere pales in heaven the morning star Last Line: Drawn from the very source of life. Subject(s): Phoebe (bird) PICTURES FROM APPLEDORE: 1, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A heap of bare and splintery crags Last Line: In the blackness where they wallow about. Subject(s): Isles Of Shoals, New Hampshire PICTURES FROM APPLEDORE: 2, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All this you would scarcely comprehend Last Line: Perpetual movement with perpetual rest! Subject(s): Isles Of Shoals, New Hampshire PICTURES FROM APPLEDORE: 3, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Away northeast is boone island light Last Line: With a deep, hoarse pant against appledore. Subject(s): Isles Of Shoals, New Hampshire PICTURES FROM APPLEDORE: 4, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eastward as far as the eye can see Last Line: To the pitiless breakers of appledore. Subject(s): Isles Of Shoals, New Hampshire PICTURES FROM APPLEDORE: 5, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How looks appledore in a storm? Last Line: And such in a storm is appledore. Subject(s): Isles Of Shoals, New Hampshire; Storms PICTURES FROM APPLEDORE: 6, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the sight of a lifetime to behold Last Line: Round the lonely reefs of appledore. Subject(s): Isles Of Shoals, New Hampshire POET, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who hath felt life's mystery POET'S OBEDIENCE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only as thou herein canst not see me Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Transcendentalism PRISON OF CERVANTES, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seat of all woes! Though nature's firm decree Last Line: By avon ceased 'neath the same april's skies? Subject(s): Cervantes, Miguel De (1547-1616); Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel De PROMETHEUS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One after one the stars have risen and set Last Line: And patience, which at last shall overcome. Subject(s): Caucasus (mountains); Prometheus; Russia; Caucasia (mountains); Soviet Union; Russians REMEMBERED MUSIC; A FRAGMENT, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thick-rushing, like an ocean vast Last Line: To listen when the next would be. Subject(s): Music & Musicians REVERIE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the twilight deep and silent REVOLUTIONARY HERO, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old joe is gone, who saw hot percy goad RHOECUS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God sends his teachers unto every age Last Line: But from that eve he was alone on earth. Variant Title(s): Divine Teachers Subject(s): Mysticism ROSALINE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou look'd'st on me all yesternight Last Line: Would it might be so, rosaline! ROYAL PEDIGREE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let those who will claim gentle birth SAYINGS: 1, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In life's small things be resolute and great Last Line: "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me""?" SAYINGS: 2, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A camel-driver, angry with his drudge Last Line: "dooms not his work, but ours, the crooked mind." SAYINGS: 3, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swiftly the politic goes: is it dark? -- he borrows a lantern Last Line: Slowly the stateman and sure, guiding his steps by the stars. SAYINGS: 4, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where lies the capital, pilgrim, seat of who governs the faithful? Last Line: "thither my footsteps are bent: it is where saadi is lodged." Subject(s): Sadi (1213-1292); Saadi SCHERZO, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the down is on the chin Last Line: "time to say good-bye; it snows." Subject(s): Old Age SCHOOLHOUSE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Propt on the marsh, a dwelling now I see SCIENCE AND POETRY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who first stretched his nerves of subtile wire Last Line: Or from my cambridge whisper to cathay. SEA-WEED, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not always unimpeded can I pray Last Line: Abides its time to come in search of me. Subject(s): Patience; Seaweed SEARCH (2), by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back to the world I turned SELF-STUDY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A presence both by night and day Last Line: "nor strive its secret to unwind." SERENADE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the close-shut windows gleams no spark Last Line: Alone, alone, ah woe! Alone! Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness SERENADE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gentle lady, be thy sleeping SHE CAME AND WENT, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a twig trembles, which a bird Last Line: Only to think she came and went. Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies SHE DOETH LITTLE KINDNESSES, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography SHEPHERD OF KING ADMETUS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men called him but a shiftless youth Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical SHIPWRECK, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We, who by shipwreck only find SI DESCENDERO IN INFERNUM, ADES, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, wandering dim on the extremest edge Last Line: Where the calm sun his unfledged planets broods. SILENCE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the cup of hope brims over SIXTY-EIGHTH BIRTHDAY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As life runs on, the road grows strange Last Line: Neath every one a friend. Subject(s): Aging SOMETHING NATURAL, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first I saw thy soul-deep eyes SONG (1), by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O! I must look on that sweet face once more before I die SONG (2), by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a light in thy blue eyes SONG (3), by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O moonlight deep and tender Last Line: A blissful dream of me! SONG (4), by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lift up the curtains of thine eyes SONG (5), by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What reck I of the stars, when I SONG (6), by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All things are sad SONG: TO M.L., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lily thou wast when I saw thee first Last Line: To plant fruitful hopes of the flower of day. SONNET, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poet! Who sittest in thy pleasant room SONNET, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If some small savor creep into my rhyme SONNET, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, happy childhood! Dear, unthoughtful years SONNET, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye who behold the body of my thought SONNET, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slow-opening flower of the summer morn SONNET, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How oft do I live o'er that blissful time SONNET, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Full many noble friends my soul hath known SONNET, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more but so? Only with uncold looks SONNET, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So may it be, but let it not be so SONNET (IMPATIENCE AND REPROOF), by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I have felt a weariness of soul SONNET (ON MY TWENTY-FOURTH BIRTH-DAY, FEBRUARY 22,1843), by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now I have quite passed by that cloud SONNET (REFORMERS), by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If ye have not the one great lesson learned SONNET (RESOLVE), by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In very truth, thou never art away SONNET (THANKFULNESS), by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no thankfulness more deep than this SONNET (THE FIERY TRIAL), by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hungry flame hath never yet been hot SONNET (THE POET), by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poet! Thou art most wealthy, being poor SONNET (TO HAVEN), by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the unruffled shelter of thy love SONNET TO A FRIEND, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One strip of bark may feed the broken tree SONNET TO FANNY ALEXANDER, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unconscious as the sunshine, simply sweet Last Line: Fair pictures of an angel drawing nigh! Subject(s): Friendship SONNET: 1 (TO A.C.L.), by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through suffering and sorrow thou hast passed Last Line: How many simple ways there are to bless. SONNET: 10, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot think that thou shouldst pass away Last Line: And ask meek, calm-browed deeds, with it agreeing. Subject(s): Home SONNET: 11, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There never yet was flower fair in vain Last Line: From man's great soul one great thought hide away. SONNET: 11, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Verse cannot say how beautiful thou art SONNET: 12, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The soul would fain its loving kindness tell SONNET: 12. SUB PONDERE CRESCIT, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hope of truth grows stronger, day by day Last Line: Of inward strife for truth and liberty. Subject(s): Religion; Theology SONNET: 13, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved, in the noisy city here Last Line: And melted, like two rays of light in one! SONNET: 13, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a gate: a harsh voice spake and said SONNET: 14, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the dark, narrow house where loved ones go SONNET: 14. ON READING WORDSWORTH'S SONNETS .., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the broad ocean endlessly upheaveth Last Line: And feel god flow forever through his breast. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty SONNET: 15, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fain would give to thee the loveliest things SONNET: 15. THE SAME CONTINUED, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once hardly in a cycle blossometh Last Line: At the next beating of the infinite heart. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty SONNET: 16, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Much I had mused of love, and in my soul SONNET: 16. THE SAME CONTINUED, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The love of all things springs from love of me Last Line: An old man faithless in humanity. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty SONNET: 17, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sayest thou, most beautiful, that thou wilt wear SONNET: 17. THE SAME CONTINUED, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A poet cannot strive for despotism Last Line: But widens to the boundless perfectness. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty SONNET: 18. THE SAME CONTINUED, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Therefore think not the past is wise alone Last Line: Save in the forethought of the eternal one. Variant Title(s): Wisdom Of The Eternal One Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty SONNET: 19, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nor more but so? SONNET: 19. THE SAME CONTINUED, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far 'yond this narrow parapet of time Last Line: Undimmed by clouds of weak mortality. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty SONNET: 2, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What were I, love, if I were stripped of the Last Line: Slips through the wheel of some old ruined mill. SONNET: 2, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great human nature, whither art thou fled? SONNET: 2. IN ABSENCE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These rugged, wintry days I scarce could bear Last Line: That comes with steady sun when april dies. Subject(s): Absence; Spring; Separation; Isolation SONNET: 20, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like the low warblings of a leaf-hid bird SONNET: 20 (TO M.O.S.), by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mary, since first I knew thee, to this hour Last Line: If we but keep it spotless as it came. SONNET: 21, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our love is not a fading, earthly flower Last Line: The wind-flung leaves of heaven's palace-gate. SONNET: 21, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our love is not a fading, earthly flower Last Line: The wind-flung leaves of heaven's palace-gate. SONNET: 21, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, gentle spenser! Thou my soul dost lead SONNET: 22, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light of mine eyes! With thy so trusting look SONNET: 23, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silent as one who treads on new-fallen snow SONNET: 23. WENDELL PHILLIPS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stood upon the world's broad threshold; wide Last Line: Through all the wide-spread veins of endless good. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Phillips, Wendell (1811-1884); Antislavery Movement - United States SONNET: 24, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A gentleness that grows of steady faith SONNET: 24. THE STREET, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They pass me by like shadows, crowds on crowds Last Line: A dead soul's epitaph in every face! Subject(s): Streets; Avenues SONNET: 25, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I grieve not that ripe knowledge takes away Last Line: The presence of some wondrous heavenliness. SONNET: 25, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the glad soul is full to overflow SONNET: 26 (READING), by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As one who on some well-known landscape looks SONNET: 26 (TO - , AFTER A SNOW-STORM), by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blue as thine eyes the river gently flows SONNET: 26 (TO THE EVENING-STAR), by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we have once said lowly 'evening-star!' SONNET: 26. TO J. R. GIDDINGS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Giddings, far rougher names than thine have grown Last Line: With a base dread that clings to them forever. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Giddings, Joshua Reed (1795-1864); Antislavery Movement - United States SONNET: 27, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought our love at full, but I did err Last Line: To print on farthest stars her pitying kiss. Subject(s): Home; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONNET: 3, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would not have this perfect love of ours Last Line: All earthly things, making them pure and good. SONNET: 4, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For this true nobleness I seek in vain Last Line: And thou wilt nevermore be sad and lone. Variant Title(s): True Nobleness SONNET: 5, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O child of nature! O most meek and free SONNET: 5. TO THE SPIRIT OF KEATS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great soul, thou sittest with me in my room Last Line: After the moon-led pulse of ocean stops. Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets SONNET: 6, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great truths are portions of the soul of man Last Line: Too long to have god's holy cause denied. SONNET: 6, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deem it no sodom-fruit of vanity SONNET: 7, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ask not for those thoughts, that sudden leap Last Line: Hearing the leaves and loving god's dear power. SONNET: 7, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Might I but be beloved, and, o most fair SONNET: 8. TO M. W., ON HER BIRTHDAY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maiden, when such a soul as thine is born Last Line: Through time, and part it from eternity. Variant Title(s): Sonnet To - , On Her Birth-day;to Irene On Her Birthday Subject(s): Birthdays; Transcendentalism SONNET: 9, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love, I have no fear that thou shouldst die Last Line: That they who love are but one step from heaven. Subject(s): Home; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONNET; ON BEING ASKED FOR AN AUTOGRAPH IN VENICE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amid these fragments of heroic days Last Line: Notches his cockney initials on the sphinx. Subject(s): Autographs SONNET; SCOTTISH BORDER, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As sinks the sun behind you alien hills Last Line: And in the charles the western splendor dies. Subject(s): Scotland SONNETS ON NAMES, SELS., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography SPHINX, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why mourn we for the golden prime ST. MICHAEL, THE WEIGHER, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stood the tall archangel weighing Last Line: While earth's splendor and renown %mounted light as thistledown Subject(s): Michael, The Archangel; Saints STILL O'ER THE EARTH HASTES OPPORTUNITY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Science STUDIES FOR TWO HEADS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some sort of heart I know is hers Last Line: The ideal hath its higher duties. SUMMER STORM, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Untremulous in the river clear Last Line: Silent and few, are drifting over me. Subject(s): Nature; Storms; Summer SUN-WORSHIP, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I were the rose at your window Last Line: They'd know where the sunshine grew. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses SUNTHIN' IN THE PASTORAL LINE, SELS., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography SYBARIS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not in mid june the golden-cuirassed bee TELEPATHY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And how could you dream of meeting? Last Line: The fire in my feet than your nay? Subject(s): Extrasensory Perception; E. S. P.; Clairvoyance; Telepathy; Mind Reading TEMPORA MUTANTUR, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world turns mild; democracy, they say Last Line: To point a moral for our youth to come. Subject(s): Transience; Impermanence TENDER AND TRUE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: True love is but a humble, low-born thing Last Line: Yearning to be but understood and loved. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THE BEGGAR, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A beggar through the world am I Last Line: O, give, to strengthen me. THE BIGLOW PAPERS. 2D SER.: 10. HOSEA BIGLOW TO ATLANTIC .., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear sir, -- your letter come to han' Last Line: A nation saved, a race delivered! THE BIGLOW PAPERS. 2D SER.: 11. MR. HOSEA BIGLOW'S SPEECH, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't much s'pose, hows'ever I should plen it Last Line: "[tumult'ous applause and cries of ""go on!"" ""don't stop!""]" THE BIGLOW PAPERS. 2D SER.: 7. LATEST VIEWS OF MR. BIGLOW, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ef I a song or two could make Last Line: An' risen up earth's greatest nation! THE BIGLOW PAPERS. 2D SER: 6. SUNTHIN' IN THE PASTORAL LINE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once git a smell o' musk into a draw Last Line: An' give me sech a startle thet I woke. THE BIGLOW PAPERS. 2D SERIES. THE COURTIN', by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God makes sech nights, all white an' still Last Line: In meetin' come nex' sunday. Subject(s): Courtship; Women THE BIGLOW PAPERS. 2D SERIES: 1. B. SAWIN TO HOSEA BIGLOW, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's some consid'ble of a spell sence I hain't writ no letters Last Line: Birdofredum sawin. THE BIGLOW PAPERS. 2D SERIES: 2. JONATHAN TO JOHN, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It don't seem hardly right, john Last Line: "may larn, like you an' me!" Subject(s): American Civil War; Mason, James Murry (1798-1871); Patriotism; Slidell, John (1793-1871); United States - History; War THE BIGLOW PAPERS. 2D SERIES: 2. MASON AND SLIDELL, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love to start out arter night's begun Last Line: But here they be -- it's THE BIGLOW PAPERS. 2D SERIES: 3. B. SAWIN TO HOSEA BIGLOW, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hed it on my min' las' time, when I to write ye started Last Line: B., markiss o' big boosy. THE BIGLOW PAPERS. 2D SERIES: 4. A MESSAGE OF JEFF DAVIS ..., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sent you a messige, my friens, t' other day Last Line: Consists in triumphantly gittin' away. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); United States - History; Confederacy THE BIGLOW PAPERS. 2D SERIES: 5. SPEECH OF PRESERVED DOE ..., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thank ye, my friens, for the warmth o' your greetin' Last Line: For I've spoke till I'm dry ez a real graven image. THE BIGLOW PAPERS. 2D SERIES: REV. H. WILBUR'S FESTINA LENTE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a time there was a pool Last Line: Absorbs the evil in its nature. THE BIGLOW PAPERS: 1. MR. HOSEA BIGLOW SPEAKS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thrash away, you'll hev to rattle Last Line: Ef there's thousands o' my mind. Variant Title(s): The Biglow Papers: Letter From Mr. Ezekiel Biglow;to A Recruiting Sergeant Subject(s): Slavery; Serfs THE BIGLOW PAPERS: 2. ... A LETTER FROM MR. B. SAWIN, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This kind o' sogerin' aint a mite like our october trainin' Last Line: Birdofredom sawin. THE BIGLOW PAPERS: 3. WHAT MR. ROBINSON THINKS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Guvener b. Is a sensible man Last Line: Gee! Subject(s): Elections; Politics & Government; United States; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; America THE BIGLOW PAPERS: 4. REMARKS OF INCREASE D. O'PHACE, ESQ., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No? Hez he? He haint, though? Wut? Voted agin him? Last Line: Good mornin', my friends, I'm your most humble servant. THE BIGLOW PAPERS: 5. THE DEBATE IN THE SENNIT, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here we stan' on the constitution, by thunder! Last Line: Thet slavery's airth s grettest boon,' sez he. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; United States - Congress - Senate; Antislavery Movement - United States THE BIGLOW PAPERS: 6. THE PIOUS EDITOR'S CREED, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I du believe in freedom's cause Last Line: To feed ez they hev fed me. Variant Title(s): The Candidate's Creed Subject(s): Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists THE BIGLOW PAPERS: 7. THE CANDIDATE'S LETTER, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear sir, - you wish to know my notions Last Line: An' leaves me frontin' south by north. THE BIGLOW PAPERS: 8. A SECOND LETTER FROM B. SAWIN, ESW., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I spose you wonder ware I be; I can't tell, fer the soul o' me Last Line: Birdofredum sawin. THE BIGLOW PAPERS: 9. A THIRD LETTER FROM B. SAWIN, ESQ., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I spose you recollect thet I explained my gennle views Last Line: Birdofredum sawin. THE BIGLOW PAPERS: INTRODUCTION. LEAVING THE MATTER OPEN; A TALE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two brothers once, an ill-matched pair Last Line: Heard something clicking wondrous clear. THE BIGLOW PAPERS: INTRODUCTION. THE TWO GUNNERS; A FABLE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two fellers, isrel named and joe Last Line: An' made his dinner very well on 't. THE BIRCH-TREE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rippling through thy branches goes the sunshine Last Line: My heart is floated down into the land of quiet. Subject(s): Birch Trees THE BLACK PREACHER; A BRETON LEGEND, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At carnac in brittany, close on the bay Last Line: Of the preacher, the tenth verse of chapter nine. Subject(s): Clergy; France; Legends; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops THE BOSS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Skilled to pull wires, he baffles nature's hope Last Line: Who sure intended him to stretch a rope. THE BRAKES, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What countless years and wealth of brain were spent Last Line: Wit's feathered heels in the stern stocks of fact. THE BROKEN TRYST, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walking alone where we walked together Last Line: Might I whirl away with them! THE CAPTIVE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was past the hour of trysting Last Line: Found a corpse upon the turf. THE CATHEDRAL, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far through the memory shines a happy day Last Line: Missed in the commonplace of miracle. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology THE CHANGELING, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had a little daughter Last Line: Transfigures its golden hair. THE DANCING BEAR, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far over elf-land poets stretch their sway Last Line: Atlantic welter reached it from his grave. Subject(s): Animals; Bears THE DARKENED MIND, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fire is burning clear and blithely Last Line: As the hum outliving the hushed bell. THE DEAD HOUSE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here once my step was quickened Last Line: That looks over woodland and corn. Subject(s): Home; Memory THE DISCOVERY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watched a moorland torrent run Last Line: Shall charm and startle to the close. THE EYE'S TREASURY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gold of the reddening sunset, backward thrown Last Line: Dear touch of nature, tremulously bright! THE FALCON, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know a falcon swift and peerless Last Line: And marks them with his vengeful eye. Variant Title(s): The Falconer Subject(s): Falcons THE FATHERLAND, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the true man's fatherland? Last Line: His is a world-wide fatherland! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Patriotism THE FINDING OF THE LYRE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There lay upon the ocean's shore Last Line: In thee what songs should waken! Subject(s): Musical Instruments THE FIRST SNOWFALL, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snow had begun in the gloaming Last Line: Folded close under deepening snow. Subject(s): Death; Death - Children; Snow; Dead, The; Death - Babies THE FLYING DUTCHMAN, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't believe in the flying dutchman? Last Line: With your drawings from casts of a muse. Subject(s): Legends THE FOOT-PATH, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It mounts athwart the windy hill Last Line: Unsought, they whisper it themselves. THE FORLORN, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night is dark, the stinging sleet Last Line: To die in maiden innocence. THE FOUNTAIN, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the sunshine, full of the light Last Line: Fresh, changeful, constant, upward, like thee! Subject(s): Fountains THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a woodland enchanted! Last Line: That still lingers in me? THE GHOST-SEER, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye who, passing graves by night Last Line: Vindicate its ancient claim. Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural THE GREEN MOUNTAINS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye mountains, that far off lift up your heads Last Line: O brother-heart, with thee my spirit warms! Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 9 Subject(s): Green Mountains, Vermont THE GROWTH OF THE LEGEND; A FRAGMENT, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A legend that grew in the forest's hush Last Line: While the border-tale's told and the canteen flits round. THE HERITAGE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rich man's son inherits lands Last Line: Well worth a life to hold in fee. Variant Title(s): The Poor And The Rich Subject(s): Poverty; Wealth; Youth; Riches; Fortunes THE LANDLORD, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What boot your houses and your lands Last Line: The titles of the wise and brave. Subject(s): Landlords & Tenants THE LESSON, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sat and watched the walls of night Last Line: God but a bigger kind of me? THE MAPLE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The maple puts her corals on in may Last Line: That age shall bear, silent, yet unresigned! Subject(s): Holidays; Maple Trees; Trees THE MINER, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down mid the tangled roots of things Last Line: To be twice present in my hope! Subject(s): Mines & Miners THE MOON, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My soul was like the sea Last Line: Moves its great deeps through life and death. Subject(s): Moon; Soul THE NEST, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When oaken woods with buds are pink Last Line: Of that fair garden 'neath the palms. Subject(s): Birds THE NIGHTINGALE IN THE STUDY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come forth!' my catbird calls to me Last Line: "to nature's self her better glory." Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales THE NOMADES, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What nature makes in any mood Last Line: Picks presents for the christening-day. THE OAK, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What gnarled stretch, what depth of shade, is his! Last Line: Among my boughs disdain to perch and sing. Subject(s): Oak Trees THE OPTIMIST, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Turbid from london's noise and smoke Last Line: Since I am happy, all is good. Subject(s): Country Life THE ORIGIN OF DIDACTIC POETRY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When wise minerva still was young Last Line: "your morals in your living." Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE PARTING OF THE WAYS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who hath not been a poet? Who hath not Last Line: "the hag's unreal florimel or mine?" THE PETITION, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, tell me less or tell me more Last Line: Oh, tell me more or tell me less! THE PIONEER, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What man would live coffined with brick Last Line: But widens still the irretrievable space. Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty THE PREGNANT COMMENT, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Opening one day a book of mine Last Line: Her precious comment, poet deep. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE PRESENT CRISIS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a deed is done for freedom, through the broad earth's aching breast Last Line: Blood-rusted key. Subject(s): Freedom; Justice; Religion; United States; Liberty; Theology; America THE PROTEST, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could not bear to see those eyes Last Line: For (is it?) me! THE RECALL, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come back before the birds are flown Last Line: To birds and me the need to sing! THE ROSE: A BALLAD, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In his tower sat the poet Last Line: Down upon the poet's cheek. Subject(s): Flowers; Poetry & Poets; Roses THE SEARCH (1), by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went to seek for christ Last Line: His throne is with the outcast and the weak. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology THE SECRET, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a fancy: how shall I bring it Last Line: Known, since the world was, by scarce two or three. Subject(s): Secrets THE SHEPHERD OF KING ADMETUS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There came a youth upon the earth Last Line: Their firstborn brother as a god. Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical THE SHEPHERD OF KING ADMETUS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There came a youth upon the earth Last Line: Their firstborn brother as a god. Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical THE SINGING LEAVES; A BALLAD, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What fairings will ye that I bring? Last Line: He held of his lute in fee. THE SIRENS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea is lonely, the sea is dreary Last Line: "here is rest and peace for thee!" Subject(s): Sea; Sirens (mythology); Ocean THE SOWER, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a sower walking slow Last Line: "the happy days when I was young." Subject(s): Nostalgia THE TOKEN, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a mere wild rosebud Last Line: Hints faintly at a life before. THE UNHAPPY LOT OF MR. KNOTT, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My worthy friend, a. Gordon knott Last Line: Miss knott missed not her lover. THE UNITED STATES, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seven years long was the bow / of battle bent, and the heightening Last Line: Shout for the joy of her face. Subject(s): United States; America THE VIOLET, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Violet! Sweet violet! Last Line: Which made thee all that nature meant thee! Subject(s): Flowers; Violets THE VISION OF SIR LAUNFAL, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over his keys the musing organist Last Line: But is lord of the earldom as much as he. Subject(s): Religion; Service; Theology THE VOYAGE TO VINLAND: 1. BIORN'S BECKONERS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now biorn, the sun of heriulf, had ill days Last Line: "ourselves a dream, and dreamlike all we did." Subject(s): America - Exploration; Vinland THE VOYAGE TO VINLAND: 2. THORWALD'S LAY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So biorn went comfortless but for his thought Last Line: The first rune in the saga of the west. Subject(s): America - Exploration; Vinland THE VOYAGE TO VINLAND: 3. GUDRIDA'S PROPHECY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four weeks they sailed, a speck in sky-shut seas Last Line: Mighty of bone. Subject(s): America - Exploration; Vinland THE WASHERS OF THE SHROUD; OCTOBER, 1861, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along a river-side, I know not where Last Line: While waking I recalled my wandering brain. Subject(s): American Civil War; Potomac River; Rivers; United States - History THE WIND HARP, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I treasure in secret some long, fine hair Last Line: Down the long steps that lead to silence and died. Subject(s): Harps; Musical Instruments; Lyres THEN FILL THE CUP, FILL HIGH! FILL HIGH!, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography THRENODIA, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone, gone from us! And shall we see Last Line: O blest word -- evermore! TO -, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We, too, have autumns, when our leaves Last Line: The victory's in believing. Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed TO A FRIEND WHO GAVE ME A GROUP OF WEEDS AND GRASSES, AFTER DURER, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: True as the sun's own work, but more refined Last Line: Or grown in nature's mysteries an adept? Subject(s): Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528); Friendship; Gifts & Giving TO A LADY PLAYING ON THE CITHERN, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So dreamy-soft the notes, so far away Last Line: Or music is it such enchantment sings? Subject(s): Cithern (musical Instrument) TO A PINE TREE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far up on katahdin thou towerest Last Line: From thy bleak throne to heaven. Subject(s): Katahdin (mountain), Maine TO C.F. BRADFORD ON THE GIFT OF A MEERSCHAUM PIPE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pipe came safe, and welcome too Last Line: Who sent my favorite pipe to me. Subject(s): Friendship; Gifts & Giving; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes TO CHARLES ELIOT NORTON, AGRO DOLCE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind is roistering out of doors Last Line: I growl, as, half moody, I toast my toes. Subject(s): Norton, Charles Eliot (1827-1908) TO E.W.G, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As through a strip of sunny light TO HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW; ON HIS BIRTHDAY, 27 FEB. 1867, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I need not praise the sweetness of his song Last Line: Whose choicest verse is harsher-toned than he. Subject(s): Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882) TO J. F. H., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green lawns in the old court this quiet hour TO JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (1), by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is your month, the month of perfect days Last Line: "we have ""five hundred"" -- not ""as good as he." Subject(s): Diplomacy & Diplomats; Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891); Poetry & Poets TO JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL (2), by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A health to him whose double wreath displays Last Line: In life's fair field beyond the seven-barred gate! Subject(s): Diplomacy & Diplomats; Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891); Poetry & Poets TO JOHN G. PALFREY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are who triumph in a losing cause Last Line: Crucified truth, when thou shalt rise anew. Subject(s): Palfrey, John Gorham (1796-1881) TO LAMARTINE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I did not praise thee when the crowd Last Line: Thy aim was higher, -- thou hast climbed a cross! Subject(s): Lamartine, Alphonse (1790-1869) TO MISS D.T.; ON HER GIVING ME A DRAWING OF LITTLE STREET ARABS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As, cleansed of tiber's and oblivion's slime Last Line: And beauty's best in unregarded things. Subject(s): Friendship; Gifts & Giving TO MR JOHN BARTLETT, WHO HAD SENT ME A SEVEN-POUND TROUT, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fit for an abbot of theleme Last Line: The wrong side of the balances. Subject(s): Trout TO O.W. HOLMES ON HIS SEVENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear wendell, why need count the years Last Line: Deathless at least in epitaph? Subject(s): Friendship; Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894) TO PERDITA, SINGING, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy voice is like a fountain Last Line: Into a waving silver flower. Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Songs TO THE DANDELION, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way Last Line: On all these living pages of god's book. Subject(s): Dandelions; Flowers; Weeds TO THE FUTURE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O land of promise! From what pisgah's height Last Line: With words of unshorn truth, with love that never wearies. Subject(s): Future TO THE MEMORY OF HOOD, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another star 'neath time's horizon dropped Last Line: "go, ask it of the poor." Subject(s): Hood, Thomas (1799-1845); Poetry & Poets TO THE PAST, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wondrous and awful are thy silent halls Last Line: That made the old time splendid. Subject(s): Past TO WHITTIER, ON HIS SEVENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New england's poet, rich in love as years Last Line: Far heard across the new world and the old. Subject(s): Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892) TRIAL, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whether the idle prisoner through his grate Last Line: Wherefrom we pour her sacrificial wine. TRUE PATRIOT, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved my country so as only they TURNER'S OLD TEMERAIRE: UNDER A FIGURE SYMBOLIZING THE CHURCH, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou wast the fairest of all man-made things Last Line: And the tired waves of thought's insurgent sea Subject(s): Art And Artists; Paintings And Painters; Protestantism; Sea Battles; Turner, Joseph Mallord W. (1775-1851) TWO SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF BLONDEL, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twere no hard task, perchance, to win Last Line: And blondel were royal himself, if he knew it! Subject(s): American Civil War; Blondel De Nesle; United States - History UNDER THE OCTOBER MAPLES, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What mean these banners spread Last Line: More insubstantial too! Subject(s): Maple Trees UNDER THE OLD ELM; READ AT CAMBRIDGE ON 100TH ANNIVERSAY ..., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Words pass as the wind, but where great deeds were done Last Line: Virginia, fitly named from england's manly queen! Subject(s): American Revolution; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799) UNDER THE WILLOWS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frank-hearted hostess of the field and wood Last Line: All life washed clean in this high tide of june. Subject(s): Willow Trees UNDER THE YALLER PINES I HOUSE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Holidays; Trees UNENDING GENESIS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think man's soul dwells nearer to the seat UNLOVELY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pretty things that others wear VILLA FRANCA, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wait a little; do we not wait? Last Line: But only god endures forever! Subject(s): Napoleon Iii (1808-1873) WE WILL SPEAK OUT, WE WILL BE HEARD', by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: While some faint gleamings we can see %of freedom's coming morn? Subject(s): Freedom WHAT RABBI JEHOSHA SAID, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rabbi jehosha used to say Last Line: Said all the host of heaven could say. Subject(s): Heaven; Jews; Paradise; Judaism WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a small chamber, friendless and unseen Last Line: Ye earn the crown, and wear it not in vain. Variant Title(s): To William Lloyd Garrison Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-1879); Politics & Government; Antislavery Movement - United States WINTER, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bird sings not in wintertime Subject(s): Transcendentalism; Winter WINTER'S EVENING HYMN TO MY FIRE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou of home the guardian lar Last Line: And open its shy midnight rose! Subject(s): Fireplaces; Home WITH A COPY OF AUCASSIN AND NICOLETE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leaves fit to have been poor juliet's cradle-rhyme Last Line: Dear friend, I plucked this herb of grace for you. Subject(s): Friendship; Gifts & Giving WITH A PAIR OF GLOVES LOST IN A WAGER, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We wagered, she for sunshine, I for rain Last Line: Who made the sunshine we together shared? WITH A PRESSED FLOWER, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This little blossom from afar Last Line: Or here our granite rocks among. Subject(s): Flowers WITH A SEASHELL, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shell, whose lips, than mine more cold Last Line: "tell you what you guessed before!" Subject(s): Shells; Conchology WITH AN ARMCHAIR, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About the oak that framed this chair of old Last Line: That, seas between us, she is still his guest. Subject(s): Chairs; Friendship WITH MY LOVE THIS KNOWLEDGE TOO WAS GIVEN, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography WITHOUT AND WITHIN, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My coachman, in the moonlight there Last Line: And just another bored without. Subject(s): Cynicism; Social Classes; Caste YUSSOUF, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A stranger came one night to yussouf's tent Last Line: "thou art avenged, my first-born, sleep in peace!" Subject(s): Hospitality; Life |
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