James Russell Lowell
Best-known poems
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The Present Crisis
When a deed is done for Freedom, through the broad earth’s aching breast
Runs a thrill of joy prophetic, trembling on from east to west,
And the slave, where’er he cowers, feels the soul within him climb …
All poems (42)
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- A Christmas Carol"What means this glory round our feet,"
- A Stanza on FreedomThey are slaves who fear to speak
- A Winter-Evening Hymn to My FireO Thou of home the guardian Lar,
- Abraham LincolnFrom the Harvard Commemoration Ode, July 21, 1865
- After the BurialYes, faith is a goodly anchor;
- AmericanFrom “a Fable for Critics”
- An AutographO’er the wet sands an insect crept
- An AutographO’er the wet sands an insect crept
- Auf WiedersehenThe little gate was reached at last,
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H 1
I 4
J 1
L 1
M 1
O 1
P 1
R 1
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- She Came and WentAs a twig trembles, which a bird
- “She came and went”As a twig trembles, which a bird
- SonnetsI. “My Love, I have no fear that thou shouldst die”My Love, I have no fear that thou shouldst die;
- SonnetsII. “Our love is not a fading, earthly flower”Our love is not a fading, earthly flower:
- SonnetsIII. “I thought our love at full, but I did err”I Thought our love at full, but I did err;
- Summer StormUNTREMULOUS in the river clear,
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- The Courtin’God makes sech nights, all white an’ still
- The First Snow-FallThe snow had begun in the gloaming,
- The Grave-YardFrom “a Fable for Critics”
- The HeritageThe Rich man’s son inherits lands,
- The Present CrisisWhen a deed is done for Freedom, through the broad earth’s aching breast
- The Vision of Sir LaunfalPrelude to Part FirstOVER his keys the musing organist,
- To Henry Wadsworth LongfellowOn His Birthday, 27th February, 1867
- To the DandelionDEAR common flower, that grow’st beside the way,