The poetical works of James R. Lowell, Band 2Ticknor and Fields., 1858 |
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... half - comic sorrow , to think that they all will be lying to - morrow tossed care- lessly up on the waste - paper shelves , and forgotten by all but their half - dozen selves . Once snug in my attic , my fire in a roar , I leave the ...
... half - comic sorrow , to think that they all will be lying to - morrow tossed care- lessly up on the waste - paper shelves , and forgotten by all but their half - dozen selves . Once snug in my attic , my fire in a roar , I leave the ...
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... ; The one's two - thirds Norseman , the other half Greek , Where the one's most abounding , the other's to seek ; C.'s generals require to be seer in the mass , - E.'s specialties gain if enlarged by the glass ; C. A FABLE FOR CRITICS . 43.
... ; The one's two - thirds Norseman , the other half Greek , Where the one's most abounding , the other's to seek ; C.'s generals require to be seer in the mass , - E.'s specialties gain if enlarged by the glass ; C. A FABLE FOR CRITICS . 43.
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... half , then that , black and blue . That white's white needs no proof , but it takes a deep fellow To prove it jet - black , and that jet - black is yellow . He offers the true faith to drink in a sieve , - When it reaches your lips ...
... half , then that , black and blue . That white's white needs no proof , but it takes a deep fellow To prove it jet - black , and that jet - black is yellow . He offers the true faith to drink in a sieve , - When it reaches your lips ...
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... half his beauty . His prose winds along with a blithe , gurgling error , And reflects all of Heaven it can see in its mirror . ' Tis a narrowish strip , but it is not an artifice , - ' Tis the true out - of - doors with its genuine ...
... half his beauty . His prose winds along with a blithe , gurgling error , And reflects all of Heaven it can see in its mirror . ' Tis a narrowish strip , but it is not an artifice , - ' Tis the true out - of - doors with its genuine ...
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... half . " There is Whittier , whose swelling and vehe- ment heart Strains the strait - breasted drab of the Quaker apart , And reveals the live Man , still supreme and erect , Underneath the bemummying wrappers of sect ; There was ne'er ...
... half . " There is Whittier , whose swelling and vehe- ment heart Strains the strait - breasted drab of the Quaker apart , And reveals the live Man , still supreme and erect , Underneath the bemummying wrappers of sect ; There was ne'er ...
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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 ; His strength is so tender, his...
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 55 - Let his mind once get head in its favorite direction And the torrent of verse bursts the dams of reflection, While, borne with the rush of the metre along, The poet may chance to go right or go wrong, Content with the whirl and delirium of song; Then his grammar's not always correct, nor his rhymes, And he 's prone to repeat his own lyrics sometimes...
Seite 60 - When Nature was shaping him, clay was not granted For making so full-sized a man as she wanted, So. to fill out her model, a little she spared From some finer-grained stuff for a woman prepared, .And she could not have hit a more excellent plan For making him fully and perfectly man.
Seite 77 - What! Irving? thrice welcome, warm heart and fine brain, You bring back the happiest spirit from Spain, And the gravest sweet humor, that ever were there Since Cervantes met death in his gentle despair; Nay, don't be embarrassed, nor look so beseeching, I shan't run directly against my own preaching, And, having just laughed at their Raphaels and Dantes, Go to setting you up beside matchless Cervantes; But allow me to speak what I honestly feel,— To a true...
Seite 208 - Ez long ez, like a lumberman, I git jest wut I axes; I go free-trade thru thick an' thin, Because it kind o' rouses The folks to vote, — an' keeps us in Our quiet custom-houses.
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
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 209 - I du in interest. I du believe in bein' this Or thet, ez it may happen One way or t' other hendiest is To ketch the people nappin' ; It aint by princerples nor men My preudunt course is steadied, — I scent wich pays the best, an