Love Poems – Page 2480

She Came and Went

As a twig trembles, which a bird
Lights on to sing, then leaves unbent,
So is my memory thrilled and stirred;— …

James Russell Lowell English
From "The Vision of Sir Launfal"

for a cap and bells our lives we pay,
Bubbles we buy with a whole soul’s tasking;
’T is heaven alone that is given away, …

James Russell Lowell English
From "A Fable for Critics"

To his COUNTRYMEN
THERE are one or two things I should just like to hint,
For you don’t often get the truth told you in print; …

James Russell Lowell English
From "The Biglow Papers"

What mr. ROBINSON THINKS
GUVENER B. is a sensible man;
He stays to his home an’ looks arter his folks; …

James Russell Lowell English
Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration

I
weak-winged is song,
Nor aims at that clear-ethered height …

James Russell Lowell English
The First Snow-Fall

The snow had begun in the gloaming,
And busily all the night
Had been heaping field and highway …

James Russell Lowell English
International Copyright

In vain we call old notions fudge,
And bend our conscience to our dealing;
The Ten Commandments will not budge, …

James Russell Lowell English
In a Copy of Omar Khayyam

These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred,
Each softly lucent as a rounded moon;
The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, …

James Russell Lowell English
Auf Wiedersehen

The little gate was reached at last,
Half hid in lilacs down the lane;
She pushed it wide, and, as she past, …

James Russell Lowell English
Palinode

Still thirteen years: ’t is autumn now
On field and hill, in heart and brain;
The naked trees at evening sough; …

James Russell Lowell English