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• Come Back

  Come back and bring my life again
  That went with thee beyond my will!
  Restore me that which makes me man …

  Henry William Herbert

• A Remembrance

  I see thee still! thou art not dead,
  Though dust is mingled with thy form;
  The broken sunbeam hath not shed …

  Willis Gaylord Clarke

• A Death-Bed

  Her suffering ended with the day,
  Yet lived she at its close,
  And breathed the long; long night away …

  James Aldrich

• Florence Vane

  I loved thee long and dearly,
  Florence Vane;
  My life’s bright dream and early …

  Philip Pendleton Cooke

• The Wife

  I could have stemmed misfortune’s tide,
  And borne the rich one’s sneer,—
  Have braved the haughty glance of pride, …

  Anna Peyre Dinnies

• Blind Louise

  She knew that she was growing blind,—
  Foresaw the dreary night
  That soon would fall, without a star, …

  George Washington Dewey

• The Voice of the Grass

  Here i come creeping, creeping everywhere;
  By the dusty roadside,
  On the sunny hill-side, …

  Sarah Roberts Boyle

• A Winter Wish

  old wine to drink!
  Ay, give the slippery juice
  That drippeth from the grape thrown loose …

  Robert Hinckley Messinger

• A Proem

  When in my walks I meet some ruddy lad—
  Or swarthy man—with tray-beladen head,
  Whose smile entreats me, or his visage sad, …

  Samuel Ward

• Horace

  He who would echo Horace’ lays
  Aspires to an Icarian fame;
  And borne on waxen wings essays …

  John Osborne Sargent

• Chez Brebant

  The vicomte is wearing a brow of gloom
  As he mounts the stair to his favorite room.
  “Breakfast for two!” the garçons say, …

  Francis Alexander Durivage

• From "Rhoecus"

  Hear now this fairy legend of old Greece,
  As full of gracious youth and beauty still
  As the immortal freshness of that grace …

  James Russell Lowell

• A Stanza on Freedom

  They are slaves who fear to speak
  For the fallen and the weak;
  They are slaves who will not choose …

  James Russell Lowell

• Hebe

  i saw the twinkle of white feet,
  I saw the flash of robes descending;
  Before her ran an influence fleet, …

  James Russell Lowell

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration

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

  James Russell Lowell

• 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

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