The Writings of James Russell Lowell ...: PoemsPrinted at the Riverside Press, 1890 - 342 oldal |
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art thou beauty behold beneath bless bliss blood blossom blue calm cloud cold dark dear death deep divine doom doth dream drops Dryad earth eternal Eurydice face faith fear feel flowers forever Freedom Ganymede gleam glow God's golden green grew hands happy hath hear heart heaven holy Holy Grail hope hush JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Kraken leap leaves life's light lonely look man's mighty mighty heart Mordred murmur mused nature naught neath never Nevermore night o'er peace pine poet's poets poor Rhocus Rosaline round scorn seemed serene shadow shalt shiver shut sight silent sing Sir Launfal smile snow song sorrow soul spirit stars summer sunshine sweet tears thee thine eyes things thou art thou hast thought thrill thunder toil trembling true truth Vinland voice wander waves weary WENDELL PHILLIPS wind wings word
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180. 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...
178. oldal - WHEN a deed is done for Freedom, through the broad earth's aching breast Huns a thrill of joy prophetic, trembling on from east to west, And the slave, where'er he cowers, feels the soul within him climb To the awful verge of manhood, as the energy sublime Of a century bursts full-blossomed on the thorny stem of Time.
298. oldal - With quaint arabesques of ice-fern leaf; Sometimes it was simply smooth and clear For the gladness of heaven to shine through, and here He had caught the nodding bulrush-tops And hung them thickly with diamond drops, That crystalled the beams of moon and sun, And made a star of every one : No mortal builder's most rare device Could match this winter-palace of ice...
123. oldal - GOD sends his teachers unto every age, To every clime, and every race of men, With revelations fitted to their growth And shape of mind, nor gives the realm of Truth Into the selfish rule of one sole race...
303. oldal - Lo, it is I, be not afraid! In many climes, without avail, Thou hast spent thy life...
137. oldal - No man is born into the world, whose work Is not born with him ; there is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil I The busy world shoves angrily aside The man who stands with arms akimbo set.
182. 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.
292. oldal - Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us, We bargain for the graves we lie in; At the Devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold...
181. oldal - Careless seems the great Avenger; history's pages but record One death-grapple in the darkness 'twixt old systems and the Word; 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.
292. oldal - And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days ; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays...