The poetical works of James R. Lowell, Volume 2Ticknor and Fields., 1858 |
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... live and will die a log , - Not to say that the thought would forever intrude That you've less chance to win her the more she is wood ? Ah ! it went to my heart , and the memory still grieves , To see those loved graces all taking their ...
... live and will die a log , - Not to say that the thought would forever intrude That you've less chance to win her the more she is wood ? Ah ! it went to my heart , and the memory still grieves , To see those loved graces all taking their ...
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... licking his critical shoes , for you know ' tis The whole aim of our lives to get one English notice ; My American puffs I would willingly burn all , ( They're all from one source , monthly , weekly 36 A FABLE FOR CRITICS .
... licking his critical shoes , for you know ' tis The whole aim of our lives to get one English notice ; My American puffs I would willingly burn all , ( They're all from one source , monthly , weekly 36 A FABLE FOR CRITICS .
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... live upon acorns , and hear him talk gratis ; And indeed , I believe , no man ever talked better- Each sentence hangs perfectly poised to a letter ; He seems piling words , but there's royal dust hid In the heart of each sky - piercing ...
... live upon acorns , and hear him talk gratis ; And indeed , I believe , no man ever talked better- Each sentence hangs perfectly poised to a letter ; He seems piling words , but there's royal dust hid In the heart of each sky - piercing ...
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... live Man , still supreme and erect , Underneath the bemummying wrappers of sect ; There was ne'er a man born who had more of the swing Of the true lyric bard and all that kind of thing ; And his failures arise , ( though perhaps he don ...
... live Man , still supreme and erect , Underneath the bemummying wrappers of sect ; There was ne'er a man born who had more of the swing Of the true lyric bard and all that kind of thing ; And his failures arise , ( though perhaps he don ...
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... live till men weary of Collins and Gray ; I'm not over - fond of Greek metres in English , To me rhyme's a gain , so it be not too jinglish , And your modern hexameter verses are no more Like Greek ones than sleek Mr. Pope is like Homer ...
... live till men weary of Collins and Gray ; I'm not over - fond of Greek metres in English , To me rhyme's a gain , so it be not too jinglish , And your modern hexameter verses are no more Like Greek ones than sleek Mr. Pope is like Homer ...
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Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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
Page 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.
Page 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