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Title: The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
Author: James Lowell
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THE COMPLETE POETICAL
WORKS OF
JAMES
RUSSELL
LOWELL
Cabinet Edition
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND

COMPANY
THE RIVERSIDE PRESS, CAMBRIDGE
M DCCCC II
PUBLISHERS' NOTE
Mr. Lowell, the year before he died, edited a definitive edition of his
works, known as the Riverside edition. Subsequently, his literary
executor, Mr. C.E. Norton, issued a final posthumous collection, and
the Cambridge edition followed, including all the poems in the
Riverside edition, and the poems edited by Mr. Norton. The present
Cabinet edition contains all the poems in the Cambridge edition. It is
made from new plates, and for the convenience of the student the
longer poems have their lines numbered, and indexes of titles and first
lines are added.
Autumn, 1899.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
EARLIER POEMS.
THRENODIA
THE SIRENS
IRENÉ
SERENADE
WITH A
PRESSED FLOWER
THE BEGGAR
MY LOVE
SUMMER
STORM
LOVE
TO PERDITA, SINGING
THE MOON

REMEMBERED MUSIC
SONG. TO M.L.
ALLEGRA
THE
FOUNTAIN
ODE
THE FATHERLAND
THE FORLORN

MIDNIGHT
A PRAYER
THE HERITAGE
THE ROSE: A
BALLAD
SONG, 'VIOLET! SWEET VIOLET!'
ROSALINE

A REQUIEM
A PARABLE
SONG, 'O MOONLIGHT DEEP
AND TENDER'
SONNETS.
I. TO A.C.L.
II. 'WHAT WERE I, LOVE, IF I WERE
STRIPPED OF THEE?'
III. 'I WOULD NOT HAVE THIS
PERFECT LOVE OF OURS'
IV. 'FOR THIS TRUE

NOBLENESS I SEEK IN VAIN'
V. TO THE SPIRIT OF
KEATS
VI. 'GREAT TRUTHS ARE PORTIONS OF THE
SOUL OF MAN'
VII. 'I ASK NOT FOR THOSE THOUGHTS,
THAT SUDDEN LEAP'
VIII. TO M.W., ON HER BIRTHDAY

IX. 'MY LOVE, I HAVE NO FEAR THAT THOU SHOULDST
DIE'
X. 'I CANNOT THINK THAT THOU SHOULDST PASS
AWAY'
XI. 'THERE NEVER YET WAS FLOWER FAIR IN
VAIN'
XII. SUB PONDERE CRESCIT
XIII. 'BELOVED, IN
THE NOISY CITY HERE'
XIV. ON READING
WORDSWORTH'S SONNETS IN DEFENCE OF CAPITAL
PUNISHMENT XV. THE SAME CONTINUED.
XVI. THE
SAME CONTINUED.
XVII. THE SAME CONTINUED.
XVIII.
THE SAME CONTINUED.
XIX. THE SAME CONCLUDED.

XX. TO M.O.S.
XXI. 'OUR LOVE IS NOT A FADING,
EARTHLY FLOWER'
XXII. IN ABSENCE
XXIII.
WENDELL PHILLIPS
XXIV. THE STREET
XXV. 'I
GRIEVE NOT THAT RIPE KNOWLEDGE TAKES AWAY'

XXVI. TO J.R. GIDDINGS
XXVII. 'I THOUGHT OUR LOVE
AT FULL, BUT I DID ERR'
L'ENVOI
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
A LEGEND OF BRITTANY
PROMETHEUS
THE
SHEPHERD OF KING ADMETUS
THE TOKEN
AN
INCIDENT IN A RAILROAD CAR
RHOECUS
THE
FALCON
TRIAL
A GLANCE BEHIMD THE CURTAIN
A
CHIPPEWA LEGEND
STANZAS ON FREEDOM

COLUMBUS
AN INCIDENT OF THE FIRE AT HAMBURG

THE SOWER

HUNGER AND COLD
THE LANDLORD
TO
A PINE-TREE
SI DESCENDERO IN INFERNUM, ADES
TO
THE PAST
TO THE FUTURE
HEBE
THE SEARCH
THE
PRESENT CRISIS
AN INDIAN-SUMMER REVERIE
THE
GROWTH OF THE LEGEND
A CONTRAST
EXTREME

UNCTION
THE OAK
AMBROSE
ABOVE AND BELOW

THE CAPTIVE
THE BIRCH-TREE
AN INTERVIEW WITH
MILES STANDISH
ON THE CAPTURE OF FUGITIVE
SLAVES NEAR WASHINGTON
TO THE DANDELION
THE
GHOST-SEER
STUDIES FOR TWO HEADS
ON A
PORTRAIT OF DANTE BY GIOTTO
ON THE DEATH OF A
FRIEND'S CHILD
EURYDICE
SHE CAME AND WENT

THE CHANGELING
THE PIONEER
LONGING
ODE TO
FRANCE. February, 1848
ANTI-APIS
A PARABLE
ODE
WRITTEN FOR THE CELEBRATION OF THE
INTRODUCTION OF THE COCHITUATE WATER INTO THE
CITY OF BOSTON
LINES SUGGESTED BY THE GRAVES
OF TWO ENGLISH SOLDIERS ON CONCORD
BATTLE-GROUND
TO----
FREEDOM
BIBLIOLATRES

BEAVER BROOK
MEMORIAL VERSES.
KOSSUTH
TO LAMARTINE. 1848
TO JOHN GORHAM
PALFREY
TO W.L. GARRISON
ON THE DEATH OF
CHARLES TURNER TORREY
ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF
DR. CHANNING
TO THE MEMORY OF HOOD
THE VISION OF SIR LAUNFAL
LETTER FROM BOSTON.
December, 1846
A FABLE FOR CRITICS
THE UNHAPPY
LOT OF MR. KNOTT
FRAGMENTS OF AN UNFINISHED
POEM
AN ORIENTAL APOLOGUE

THE BIGLOW
PAPERS.
FIRST SERIES.
NOTICES OF AN INDEPENDENT PRESS
NOTE TO
TITLE-PAGE
INTRODUCTION
NO. I. A LETTER FROM
MR. EZEKIEL BIGLOW OF JAALAM TO THE HON. JOSEPH
T. BUCKINGHAM
NO. II. A LETTER FROM MR. HOSEA

BIGLOW TO THE HON. J.T.
BUCKINGHAM
NO. III.
WHAT MR. ROBINSON THINKS
NO. IV. REMARKS OF
INCREASE D. O'PHACE, ESQ.
NO. V. THE DEBATE IN THE
SENNIT
NO. VI. THE PIOUS EDITOR'S CREED
NO. VII. A
LETTER FROM A CANDIDATE IN THE PRESIDENCY IN
ANSWER TO SUTTIN QUESTIONS PROPOSED BY Mr. HOSEA
BIGLOW
NO. VIII. A SECOND LETTER FROM B. SAWIN,
ESQ.
NO. IX. A THIRD LETTER FROM B. SAWIN, ESQ.
SECOND SERIES.
THE COURTIN'
NO. I. BIRDOFREDUM SAWIN ESQ., TO
MR. HOSEA BIGLOW
NO. II. MASON AND SLIDELL: A
YANKEE IDYLL
JONATHAN TO JOHN
NO. III. BIRDOFREDUM SAWIN,
ESQ., TO MR. HOSEA BIGLOW
NO. IV. A MESSAGE OF
JEFF DAVIS IN SECRET SESSION
NO. V. SPEECH OF
HONOURABLE PRESERVED DOE IN SECRET CAUCUS NO.
VI. SUNTHIN' IN THE PASTORAL