The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell LowellHoughton, Mifflin, 1896 - 492 oldal The present Cambridge Edition of Mr. Lowell's poems contains, substantially in the order established by the author, the poems included by him not long before his death in the definitive Riverside Edition of his writings, and in addition the small group contained in the Last Poems, collected by his literary executor, Mr. Charles Eliot Norton. - Publisher's note. |
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xiii. oldal
... truth and righteousness . It is noticeable , too , that in the first volume there is no trace of humor and scarcely any singular felicity of phrase ; in the second , wit and humor begin to play a little on the surface . In Conversations ...
... truth and righteousness . It is noticeable , too , that in the first volume there is no trace of humor and scarcely any singular felicity of phrase ; in the second , wit and humor begin to play a little on the surface . In Conversations ...
xvi. oldal
... truth and liberty . It is impossible to read these papers now without admiration for the political sagacity of the writer , a sagacity before the event , not after . Every page bears witness to the sanity with which he regarded ...
... truth and liberty . It is impossible to read these papers now without admiration for the political sagacity of the writer , a sagacity before the event , not after . Every page bears witness to the sanity with which he regarded ...
8. oldal
... Truth and Beauty as their peer , Showing its worthiness of noble thoughts By a clear sense of inward nobleness ; A love that in its object findeth not All grace and beauty , and enough to sate Its thirst of blessing , but , in all of ...
... Truth and Beauty as their peer , Showing its worthiness of noble thoughts By a clear sense of inward nobleness ; A love that in its object findeth not All grace and beauty , and enough to sate Its thirst of blessing , but , in all of ...
11. oldal
... truth was rife ; He saw the mysteries which circle under The outward shell and skin of daily life . Nothing to him were fleeting time and fashion , His soul was led by the eternal law ; There was in him no hope of fame , no pas- sion ...
... truth was rife ; He saw the mysteries which circle under The outward shell and skin of daily life . Nothing to him were fleeting time and fashion , His soul was led by the eternal law ; There was in him no hope of fame , no pas- sion ...
12. oldal
... truth of thought , And , with strong arm and purpose firm and steady , An anchor for the drifting world he wrought . So did he make the meanest man partaker Of all his brother - gods unto him gave ; All souls did reverence him and name ...
... truth of thought , And , with strong arm and purpose firm and steady , An anchor for the drifting world he wrought . So did he make the meanest man partaker Of all his brother - gods unto him gave ; All souls did reverence him and name ...
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68. oldal - Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 'tis prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied.
67. oldal - Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,— Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
67. oldal - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right.1 And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
106. oldal - Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie ; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not. Over our manhood bend the skies ; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies ; With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its benedicite; And to our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea.
219. oldal - 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.
347. oldal - Be proud! for she is saved, and all have helped to save her! She that lifts up the manhood of the poor, She of the open soul and open door, With room about her hearth for all mankind!
220. oldal - An' yit she gin her cheer a jerk Ez though she wished him furder, An' on her apples kep' to work, Parin
111. oldal - This water his blood that died on the tree; The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need ; Not what we give, but what we share, For the gift without the giver is bare ; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
295. oldal - Greatly begin ! though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime, — Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
107. oldal - Tis enough for us now that the leaves are green; We sit in the warm shade and feel right well How the sap creeps up and the blossoms swell; We may shut our eyes, but we cannot help knowing That skies are clear and grass is growing...