The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell | Page 2

LINE
NO. VII. LATEST
VIEWS OF MR. BIGLOW
NO. VIII.
KETTELOPOTOMACHIA
NO. IX. SOME MEMORIALS OF
THE LATE REVEREND H. WILBUR
NO. X. MR. HOSEA
BIGLOW TO THE EDITOR OF THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY
NO. XI. MR. HOSEA BIGLOW'S SPEECH IN MARCH
MEETING
UNDER THE WILLOWS AND OTHER POEMS.
TO CHARLES ELIOT NORTON
UNDER THE WILLOWS

DARA
THE FIRST SNOW-FALL
THE SINGING LEAVES

SEAWEED
THE FINDING OF THE LYRE
NEW-YEAR'S
EVE, 1850
FOR AN AUTOGRAPH
AL FRESCO

MASACCIO
WITHOUT AND WITHIN
GODMINSTER
CHIMES
THE PARTING OF THE WAYS
ALADDIN

AN

INVITATION. TO JOHN FRANCIS HEATH
THE NOMADES

SELF-STUDY
PICTURES FROM APPLEDORE
THE
WIND-HARP
AUF WIEDERSEHEN
PALINODE
AFTER
THE BURIAL
THE DEAD HOUSE
A MOOD
THE
VOYAGE TO VINLAND
MAHMOOD THE
IMAGE-BREAKER
INVITA MINERVA
THE FOUNTAIN
OF YOUTH
YUSSOUF
THE DARKENED MIND
WHAT
RABBI JEHOSHA SAID
ALL-SAINTS
A
WINTER-EVENING HYMN TO MY FIRE
FANCY'S
CASUISTRY
TO MR. JOHN BARTLETT
ODE TO
HAPPINESS
VILLA FRANCA. 1859
THE MINER
GOLD
EGG: A DREAM-FANTASY
A FAMILIAR EPISTLE TO A
FRIEND
AN EMBER PICTURE
TO H.W.L.
THE
NIGHTINGALE IN THE STUDY
IN THE TWILIGHT
THE
FOOT-PATH
POEMS OF THE WAR.
THE WASHERS OF THE SHROUD
TWO SCENES FROM
THE LIFE OF BLONDEL
MEMORIAE POSITUM
ON
BOARD THE '76
ODE RECITED AT THE HARVARD
COMMEMORATION
L'ENVOI: TO THE MUSE
THE
CATHEDRAL
THREE MEMORIAL POEMS.
ONE READ
AT THE ONE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIGHT
AT CONCORD BRIDGE

UNDER THE OLD ELM
AN ODE
FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1876
HEARTSEASE AND RUE.
I. FRIENDSHIP.
AGASSIZ
TO HOLMES, ON HIS SEVENTY-FIFTH
BIRTHDAY
IN A COPY OF OMAR KHAYYÁM
ON
RECEIVING A COPY OF MR. AUSTIN DOBSON'S 'OLD
WORLD IDYLLS' TO C.F. BRADFORD
BANKSIDE


JOSEPH WINLOCK
SONNET, TO FANNY ALEXANDER

JEFFRIES WYMAN
TO A FRIEND
WITH AN ARMCHAIR

E.G. DE R.
BON VOYAGE
TO WHITTIER, ON HIS
SEVENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY
ON AN AUTUMN SKETCH OF
H.G. WILD
TO MISS D.T.
WITH A COPY OF AUCASSIN
AND NICOLETTE
ON PLANTING A TREE AT INVERARAY

AN EPISTLE TO GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS
II. SENTIMENT.
ENDYMION
THE BLACK PREACHER
ARCADIA
REDIVIVA
THE NEST
A YOUTHFUL EXPERIMENT IN
ENGLISH HEXAMETERS
BIRTHDAY VERSES

ESTRANGEMENT
PHOEBE
DAS EWIG-WEIBLICHE

THE RECALL
ABSENCE
MONNA LISA
THE OPTIMIST

ON BURNING SOME OLD LETTERS
THE PROTEST

THE PETITION
FACT OR FANCY?
AGRO-DOLCE
THE
BROKEN TRYST
CASA SIN ALMA
A CHRISTMAS CAROL

MY PORTRAIT GALLERY
PAOLO TO FRANCESCA

SONNET, SCOTTISH BORDER
SONNET, ON BEING ASKED
FOR AN AUTOGRAPH IN VENICE
THE DANCING BEAR

THE MAPLE
NIGHTWATCHES
DEATH OF QUEEN
MERCEDES
PRISON OF CERVANTES
TO A LADY
PLAYING ON THE CITHERN
THE EYE'S TREASURY

PESSIMOPTIMISM
THE BRAKES
A FOREBODING
III. FANCY
UNDER THE OCTOBER MAPLES
LOVE'S CLOCK

ELEANOR MAKES MACAROONS
TELEPATHY

SCHERZO
'FRANCISCUS DE VERULAMIO SIC
COGITAVIT'
AUSPEX
THE PREGNANT COMMENT

THE LESSON
SCIENCE AND POETRY
A NEW YEAR'S
GREETING
THE DISCOVERY
WITH A SEASHELL
THE

SECRET
IV. HUMOR AND SATIRE.
FITZ ADAM'S STORY
THE ORIGIN OF DIDACTIC POETRY

THE FLYING DUTCHMAN
CREDIDIMUS JOVEM
REGNARE
TEMPORA MUTANTUR
IN THE HALF-WAY
HOUSE
AT THE BURNS CENTENNIAL
IN AN ALBUM

AT THE COMMENCEMENT DINNER, 1866
A PARABLE
V. EPIGRAMS.
SAYINGS
INSCRIPTIONS
A MISCONCEPTION
THE
BOSS
SUN-WORSHIP
CHANGED PERSPECTIVE
WITH
A PAIR OF GLOVES LOST IN A WAGER
SIXTY-EIGHTH
BIRTHDAY
INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT
LAST POEMS.
HOW I CONSULTED THE ORACLE OF THE GOLDFISHES

TURNER'S OLD TÉMÉRAIRE
ST. MICHAEL THE
WEIGHER
A VALENTINE
AN APRIL BIRTHDAY--AT SEA

LOVE AND THOUGHT
THE NOBLER LOVER
ON
HEARING A SONATA OF BEETHOVEN'S PLAYED IN THE
NEXT ROOM VERSES, INTENDED TO GO WITH A POSSET
DISH
ON A BUST OF GENERAL GRANT
APPENDIX.
I. INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND SERIES OF BIGLOW
PAPERS
II. GLOSSARY TO THE BIGLOW PAPERS
III.
INDEX TO BIGLOW PAPERS
INDEX OF FIRST LINES
INDEX OF TITLES

EARLIER POEMS
THRENODIA
Gone, gone from us! and shall we see
Those sibyl-leaves of destiny,

Those calm eyes, nevermore?
Those deep, dark eyes so warm and
bright,
Wherein the fortunes of the man
Lay slumbering in
prophetic light,
In characters a child might scan?
So bright, and
gone forth utterly!
Oh stern word--Nevermore!
The stars of those two gentle eyes 10
Will shine no more on earth;

Quenched are the hopes that had their birth,
As we watched them
slowly rise,
Stars of a mother's fate;
And she would read them o'er
and o'er,
Pondering, as she sate,
Over their dear astrology,
Which
she had conned and conned before,
Deeming she needs must read
aright 19
What was writ so passing bright.
And yet, alas! she knew
not why.
Her voice would falter in its song,
And tears would slide
from out her eye,
Silent, as they were doing wrong.
Oh stern
word--Nevermore!
The tongue that scarce had learned to claim
An entrance to a mother's
heart
By that dear talisman, a mother's name,
Sleeps all forgetful of
its art!
I loved to see the infant soul 30
(How mighty in the
weakness
Of its untutored meekness!)
Peep timidly from out its
nest,
His lips, the while,
Fluttering with half-fledged words,
Or
hushing to a smile
That more than words expressed,
When his glad
mother on him stole
And snatched him to her breast!
Oh, thoughts
were brooding in those eyes, 40
That would have soared like
strong-winged birds

Far, far into the skies,
Gladding the earth with
song,
And gushing harmonies,
Had he but tarried with us long!

Oh stern word--Nevermore!
How peacefully they rest,
Crossfolded there
Upon his little breast,

Those small, white hands that ne'er were still before, 50 But ever

sported with his mother's hair,
Or the plain cross that on her breast
she wore!
Her heart no more will beat
To feel the touch of that soft
palm,
That ever seemed a new surprise
Sending glad thoughts up to
her eyes
To bless him with their holy calm,--
Sweet thoughts! they
made her eyes as sweet.
How quiet are the hands
That wove those
pleasant bands!
But that they do not rise and sink 61
With his calm
breathing, I should think
That he were dropped asleep.
Alas! too
deep, too deep
Is this his slumber!
Time scarce can number
The
years ere he shall wake again.
Oh, may we see his eyelids open