The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
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Cabinet Edition
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 .
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
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.
James Russell Lowell
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THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY THE RIVERSIDE PRESS, CAMBRIDGE
PUBLISHERS' NOTE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
III. FANCY
INDEX OF FIRST LINES
INDEX OF TITLES
EARLIER POEMS
THE SIRENS
IRENÉ
SERENADE
WITH A PRESSED FLOWER
THE BEGGAR
MY LOVE
SUMMER STORM
LOVE
TO PERDITA, SINGING
THE MOON
REMEMBERED MUSIC
SONG
ALLEGRA
THE FOUNTAIN
ODE
I
II
III
THE FATHERLAND
THE FORLORN
MIDNIGHT
A PRAYER
THE HERITAGE
THE ROSE: A BALLAD
I
II
III
SONG
ROSALINE
A REQUIEM
A PARABLE
SONG
SONNETS
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
XII
XIII
XIV
XV
XVI
XVII
XVIII
XIX
XX
XXI
XXII
XXIII
XXIV
XXV
XXVI
XXVII
L'ENVOI
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
A LEGEND OF BRITTANY
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
XII
XIII
XIV
XV
XVI
XVII
XVIII
XIX
XX
XXI
XXII
XXIII
XXIV
XXV
XXVI
XXVII
XXVIII
XXIX
XXX
XXXI
XXXII
XXXIII
XXXIV
XXXV
PART SECOND
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
XII
XIII
XIV
XV
XVI
XVII
XVIII
XIX
XX
XXI
XXII
XXIII
XXIV
XXV
XXVI
XXVII
XXVIII
XXIX
XXX
XXXI
XXXII
XXXIII
XXXIV
XXXV
PROMETHEUS
THE SHEPHERD OF KING ADMETUS
THE TOKEN
AN INCIDENT IN A RAILROAD CAR
RHOECUS
THE FALCON
TRIAL
I
II
A GLANCE BEHIND 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
I
II
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
I
II
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
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
ANTI-APIS
A PARABLE
ODE
LINES
TO——
FREEDOM
BIBLIOLATRES
BEAVER BROOK
MEMORIAL VERSES
KOSSUTH
TO LAMARTINE
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
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
PRELUDE TO PART SECOND
PART SECOND
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
LETTER FROM BOSTON
A PRELIMINARY NOTE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
A FABLE FOR CRITICS
THE UNHAPPY LOT OF MR. KNOTT
PART II
PART III
FRAGMENTS OF AN UNFINISHED POEM
AN ORIENTAL APOLOGUE
THE BIGLOW PAPERS
PROEMIUM
MELIBOEUS-HIPPONAX
THE
NOTE TO TITLE-PAGE
THE TWO GUNNERS
LEAVING THE MATTER OPEN
*** TO THE INDULGENT READER
THE BIGLOW PAPERS
MELIBOEUS-HIPPONAX
THE
THE COURTIN'
THE BIGLOW PAPERS
UNDER THE WILLOWS AND OTHER POEMS
TO CHARLES ELIOT NORTON
UNDER THE WILLOWS
DARA
THE FIRST SNOW-FALL
THE SINGING LEAVES
I
II
III
SEAWEED
THE FINDING OF THE LYRE
NEW-YEAR'S EVE, 1850
FOR AN AUTOGRAPH
AL FRESCO
MASACCIO
WITHOUT AND WITHIN
THE PARTING OF THE WAYS
THE PARTING OF THE WAYS
ALADDIN
AN INVITATION
THE NOMADES
SELF-STUDY
PICTURES FROM APPLEDORE
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
THE WIND-HARP
AUF WIEDERSEHEN
PALINODE
AFTER THE BURIAL
THE DEAD HOUSE
A MOOD
THE VOYAGE TO VINLAND
I
II
III
MAHMOOD THE IMAGE-BREAKER
INVITA MINERVA
THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
YUSSOUF
THE DARKENED MIND
WHAT RABBI JEHOSHA SAID
ALL-SAINTS
A WINTER-EVENING HYMN TO MY FIRE
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
FANCY'S CASUISTRY
TO MR. JOHN BARTLETT
ODE TO HAPPINESS
VILLA FRANCA
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
I
II
III
ON BOARD THE '76
ODE RECITED AT THE HARVARD COMMEMORATION
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
XII
L'ENVOI
THE CATHEDRAL
THREE MEMORIAL POEMS
ODE
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
UNDER THE OLD ELM
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
AN ODE
I
II
III
IV
HEARTSEASE AND RUE
I. FRIENDSHIP
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
TO HOLMES
IN A COPY OF OMAR KHAYYÁM
ON RECEIVING A COPY OF MR. AUSTIN DOBSON'S 'OLD WORLD IDYLLS'
I
II
TO C.F. BRADFORD
BANKSIDE
I
II
III
IV
JOSEPH WINLOCK
SONNET
JEFFRIES WYMAN
TO A FRIEND
WITH AN ARMCHAIR
E.G. DE R.
BON VOYAGE
TO WHITTIER
ON AN AUTUMN SKETCH OF H.G. WILD
TO MISS D.T.
WITH A COPY OF AUCASSIN AND NICOLETE
ON PLANTING A TREE AT INVERARAY
AN EPISTLE TO GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS
POSTSCRIPT, 1887
II. SENTIMENT
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
THE BLACK PREACHER
ARCADIA REDIVIVA
THE NEST
PALINODE—DECEMBER
A YOUTHFUL EXPERIMENT IN ENGLISH HEXAMETERS
BIRTHDAY VERSES
ESTRANGEMENT
PHŒBE
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
SONNET
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
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
AT THE BURNS CENTENNIAL
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
XII
XIII
XIV
XV
XVI
XVII
XVIII
XIX
XX
XXI
XXII
XXIII
XXIV
IN AN ALBUM
AT THE COMMENCEMENT DINNER, 1866
A PARABLE
V. EPIGRAMS
SAYINGS
INSCRIPTIONS
FOR A MEMORIAL WINDOW TO SIR WALTER RALEIGH, SET UP IN ST. MARGARET'S, WESTMINSTER, BY AMERICAN CONTRIBUTORS
PROPOSED FOR A SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' MONUMENT IN BOSTON
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
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
A.
INDEX OF FIRST LINES
INDEX OF TITLES
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