The Writings of James Russell Lowell ...: PoemsPrinted at the Riverside Press, 1890 |
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... verse , and leave the rest to natural emulation . With this view , I accordingly lent him some volumes of Pope and ... verses written upon that model , a specimen of which I subjoin , having changed some phrases of less elegancy , and ...
... verse , and leave the rest to natural emulation . With this view , I accordingly lent him some volumes of Pope and ... verses written upon that model , a specimen of which I subjoin , having changed some phrases of less elegancy , and ...
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... verses , wanting as they certainly were in classic polish and point , had somehow taken hold of the public ear in a surprising manner . So , only set- ting him right as to the quantity of the proper name Pegasus , I left him to follow ...
... verses , wanting as they certainly were in classic polish and point , had somehow taken hold of the public ear in a surprising manner . So , only set- ting him right as to the quantity of the proper name Pegasus , I left him to follow ...
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... verses which he had written touch- ing the acquisition of territory resulting from the Mexi- can war , and the folly of leaving the question of slavery or freedom to the adjudication of chance , I did myself indite a short fable or ...
... verses which he had written touch- ing the acquisition of territory resulting from the Mexi- can war , and the folly of leaving the question of slavery or freedom to the adjudication of chance , I did myself indite a short fable or ...
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... verse . Mr. Biglow , thinking it peculiarly susceptible of metrical adornment , translated it , so to speak , into his own vernacular tongue . This is not the time to consider the question , whether rhyme be a mode of expression natural ...
... verse . Mr. Biglow , thinking it peculiarly susceptible of metrical adornment , translated it , so to speak , into his own vernacular tongue . This is not the time to consider the question , whether rhyme be a mode of expression natural ...
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... verses will not be out of place . The satire in them was not meant to have any per- sonal , but only a general , application . Of the gentleman upon whose letter they were intended as a commentary Mr. Biglow had never heard , till he ...
... verses will not be out of place . The satire in them was not meant to have any per- sonal , but only a general , application . Of the gentleman upon whose letter they were intended as a commentary Mr. Biglow had never heard , till he ...
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Seite 245 - Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs...
Seite 211 - GOD makes sech nights, all white an' still Fur 'z you can look or listen, Moonshine an' snow on field an' hill, All silence an' all glisten. Zekle crep' up quite unbeknown An' peeked in thru' the winder. An' there sot Huldy all alone, 'Ith no one nigh to hender.
Seite 10 - Zekle crep' up quite unbeknown An' peeked in thru' the winder, An' there sot Huldy all alone, 'ith no one nigh to hender. A fireplace filled the room's one side With half a cord o' wood in — 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...
Seite 67 - s ben true to one party, — an' thet is himself ; — So John P. Robinson he Sez he shall vote fer Gineral C. Gineral C. he goes in fer the war ; He don't vally principle more 'n an old cud ; Wut did God make us raytional creeturs fer, But glory an' gunpowder, plunder an
Seite 101 - O' prayin' an' convartin' ; The bread comes back in many days, An' buttered, tu, fer sartin ; I mean in preyin' till one busts On wut the party chooses, An' in convartin' public trusts To very privit uses.
Seite 110 - I stan' upon the Constitution, Ez preudunt statesmun say, who 've planned A way to git the most profusion 0' chances ez to -ware they '11 stand. Ez fer the war, I go agin it, — I mean to say I kind o' du, — Thet is, I mean thet, bein...
Seite 46 - Ez fer war, I call it murder, — There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that; God hez sed so plump an' fairly, It's ez long ez it is broad, An' you've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
Seite 214 - em slips, Huldy sot pale ez ashes, All kin' o' smily roun' the lips An' teary roun
Seite 211 - ith no one nigh to hender. A fireplace filled the room's one side With half a cord o' wood in — 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 213 - A-raspin' on the scraper, — All ways to once her feelins flew Like sparks in burnt-up paper. He kin' o' 1'itered on the mat, Some doubtfle o' the sekle, His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity Zekle.