The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell ...: Complete in Two Volumes, Band 2Ticknor and Fields, 1863 |
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... doubt , wonder and laugh , and when , my strained arms with their grown burthen full , I call it my Fable , they call it a bull . Having scrawled at full gallop ( as far as that goes ) in a style that is neither good verse nor bad prose ...
... doubt , wonder and laugh , and when , my strained arms with their grown burthen full , I call it my Fable , they call it a bull . Having scrawled at full gallop ( as far as that goes ) in a style that is neither good verse nor bad prose ...
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... doubt , if you measured the phiz of your's most devotedly , Wonderful Quiz , you would find that its vertical section was shorter , by an inch and two tenths , or ' twixt that and a quarter . You have watched a child playing - in those ...
... doubt , if you measured the phiz of your's most devotedly , Wonderful Quiz , you would find that its vertical section was shorter , by an inch and two tenths , or ' twixt that and a quarter . You have watched a child playing - in those ...
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... doubt of , ) In successively sinking the craft they're fired out of . Now nobody knows when an author is hit , If he don't have a public hysterical fit ; Let him only keep close in his snug garret's dim ether , And nobody'd think of his ...
... doubt of , ) In successively sinking the craft they're fired out of . Now nobody knows when an author is hit , If he don't have a public hysterical fit ; Let him only keep close in his snug garret's dim ether , And nobody'd think of his ...
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... doubt— Just the sugar and lemons and spirit left out . “ But stay , here comes Tityrus Griswold , and leads on The flocks whom he first plucks alive , and then feeds on , - A loud - cackling swarm , in whose feathers warm- drest , He ...
... doubt— Just the sugar and lemons and spirit left out . “ But stay , here comes Tityrus Griswold , and leads on The flocks whom he first plucks alive , and then feeds on , - A loud - cackling swarm , in whose feathers warm- drest , He ...
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... of flame by the chill Northern Lights . He may rank ( Griswold says so ) first bard of your nation , ( There's no doubt that he stands in supreme ice- olation , ) Your topmost Parnassus he may set his heel on , 52 A FABLE FOR CRITICS .
... of flame by the chill Northern Lights . He may rank ( Griswold says so ) first bard of your nation , ( There's no doubt that he stands in supreme ice- olation , ) Your topmost Parnassus he may set his heel on , 52 A FABLE FOR CRITICS .
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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 - 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 152 - S jest to make him fill its pus. Want to tackle me in, du ye? I expect you'll hev to wait; Wen cold lead puts daylight thru ye You'll begin to kal'late; S'pose the crows wun't fall to pickin' All the carkiss from your bones, Coz you helped to give a lickin' To them poor half-Spanish drones? Jest go home an...
Seite 184 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
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 ; His strength is so tender, his...
Seite 105 - An' yit she gin her cheer a jerk Ez though she wished him furder, An' on her apples kep' to work, Parin
Seite 61 - I'd lay any bet that, without ever quitting Their box, they'd be all, to a man, for acquitting. He has drawn you one character, though, that is new, One wildflower he's plucked that is wet with the dew Of this fresh Western world...
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 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 151 - Trainin' round in bobtail coats, — But it's curus Christian dooty This 'ere cuttin' folks's throats. They may talk o' Freedom's airy Tell they're pupple in the face,^ It's a grand gret cemetary Fer the barthrights of our race; They jest want this Californy So's to lug new slave-states in To abuse ye, an' to scorn ye, An