The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell ...Ticknor and Fields, 1866 |
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... sometimes hit the truth . In reading these lines , you perhaps have a vision of a person in pretty good health and condition , and yet , since I put forth my primary edition , I have been crushed , scorched , withered , used up and put ...
... sometimes hit the truth . In reading these lines , you perhaps have a vision of a person in pretty good health and condition , and yet , since I put forth my primary edition , I have been crushed , scorched , withered , used up and put ...
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... sometimes remark'd , " When I last saw my love , she was fairly em- bark'd , In a laurel , as she thought - but ( ah how Fate mocks ! ) She has found it by this time a very bad box ; Let hunters from me take this saw when they need it ...
... sometimes remark'd , " When I last saw my love , she was fairly em- bark'd , In a laurel , as she thought - but ( ah how Fate mocks ! ) She has found it by this time a very bad box ; Let hunters from me take this saw when they need it ...
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... sometimes more than was right , Her new bark is worse than ten times her old bite . " Now , Daphne , -before she was happily treei- fied , - Over all other blossoms the lily had deified , And when she expected the god on a visit ...
... sometimes more than was right , Her new bark is worse than ten times her old bite . " Now , Daphne , -before she was happily treei- fied , - Over all other blossoms the lily had deified , And when she expected the god on a visit ...
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... sometimes acknowledged their verse had a quieting Effect after dinner , and seemed to suggest a Retreat to the shrine of a tranquil siesta , ) Kept our Hero at hand , who , by means of a bray , Which he gave to the life , drove the ...
... sometimes acknowledged their verse had a quieting Effect after dinner , and seemed to suggest a Retreat to the shrine of a tranquil siesta , ) Kept our Hero at hand , who , by means of a bray , Which he gave to the life , drove the ...
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... sometimes as if they were dead ; Life , nature , love , God , and affairs of that sort , He looks at as merely ideas ; in short , As if they were fossils stuck round in a cabinet , Of such vast extent that our earth's a mere dab in it ...
... sometimes as if they were dead ; Life , nature , love , God , and affairs of that sort , He looks at as merely ideas ; in short , As if they were fossils stuck round in a cabinet , Of such vast extent that our earth's a mere dab in it ...
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Seite 171 - GUVENER B. is a sensible man; He stays to his home an' looks arter his folks; He draws his furrer ez straight ez he can, An' into nobody's tater-patch pokes; — But John P. Robinson he Sez he wunt vote fer Guvener B. My! aint it terrible? Wut shall we du? We can't never choose him, o...
Seite 60 - T is as if a rough oak that for ages had stood, With his gnarled bony branches like ribs of the wood, Should bloom, after cycles of struggle and scathe, With a single anemone trembly and rathe...
Seite 150 - Freedom's airy Tell they're pupple in the face, — It's a grand gret cemetary Per the barthrights of our race; They jest want this Californy So's to lug new slave-states in To abuse ye, an' to scorn ye, An
Seite 104 - There warn't no stoves (tell comfort died) To bake ye to a puddin'. The wa'nut logs shot sparkles out Towards the pootiest, bless her, An' leetle flames danced all about The chiny on the dresser.
Seite 171 - An' into nobody's tater-patch pokes : But John P. Robinson he Sez he wunt vote fer Guvener B. My ! ain't it terrible ? Wut shall we du ? We can't never choose him, o' course — thet 's flat ; Guess we shall hev to come round (don't you.
Seite 44 - C. labors to get at the centre, and then Take a reckoning from there of his actions and men ; E. calmly assumes the said centre as granted, And, given himself, has whatever is wanted.
Seite 172 - Polk, you know, he is our country. An' the angel thet writes all our sins in a book Puts the debit to him, an' to us the per contry; An' John P. Robinson he Sez this is his view o
Seite 72 - Why, there is not a bard at this moment alive More willing than he that his fellows should thrive; While you are abusing him thus, even now He would help either one of you out of a slough; You may say that...
Seite 81 - There's Holmes, who is matchless among you for wit ; A Leyden-jar always full-charged, from which flit The electrical tingles of hit after hit ; In long poems...
Seite 105 - He stood a spell on one foot fust, Then stood a spell on t'other, An' on which one he felt the wust He couldn't ha