Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE DISCOVERY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watched a moorland torrent run Last Line: Shall charm and startle to the close. | ||||||||
I WATCHED a moorland torrent run Down through the rift itself had made, Golden as honey in the sun, Of darkest amber in the shade. In this wild glen at last, methought, The magic's secret I surprise; Here Celia's guardian fairy caught The changeful splendors of her eyes. All else grows tame, the sky's one blue, The one long languish of the rose, But these, beyond prevision new, Shall charm and startle to the close. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AN INTERVIEW WITH MILES STANDISH by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL AUF WIEDERSEHEN! SUMMER by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL AUSPEX by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL BEAVER BROOK by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL COMMEMORATION ODE READ AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL IN A COPY OF OMAR KHAYYAM by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL IN THE TWILIGHT by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL LINES; SUGGESTED BY GRAVES TWO ENGLISH SOLDIERS ON CONCORD by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL MY LOVE by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL ON BOARD THE '76; WRITTEN FOR BRYANT'S SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL |
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