HEARTSEASE AND RUE

BY
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1888
Copyright, 1888,
By JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.
All rights reserved.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge:
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.

Along the wayside where we pass bloom few
Gay plants of heartsease, more of saddening rue;
So life is mingled; so should poems be
That speak a conscious word to you and me.

CONTENTS.

I. FRIENDSHIP.
	PAGE
[Agassiz]	[1]
[To Holmes on his Seventy-Fifth Birthday]	[23]
[In a Copy of Omar Khayyám]	[26]
[On receiving a Copy of Mr. Austin Dobson’s “Old World Idylls”]	[27]
[To C. F. Bradford on the Gift of a Meerschaum Pipe]	[29]
[Bankside]	[32]
[Joseph Winlock]	[36]
[Sonnet. To Fanny Alexander]	[37]
[Jeffries Wyman]	[38]
[To a Friend]	[39]
[With an Armchair]	[40]
[E. G. de R.]	[41]
[Bon Voyage!]	[42]
[To Whittier on his Seventy-Fifth Birthday]	[43]
[On an Autumn Sketch of H. G. Wild]	[44]
[To Miss D. T]	[45]
[With a Copy of Aucassin and Nicolete]	[46]
[On planting a Tree at Inverara]	[47]
[An Epistle to George William Curtis]	[49]
II. SENTIMENT.
[Endymion]	[61]
[The Black Preacher]	[70]
[Arcadia Rediviva]	[74]
[The Nest]	[78]
[A Youthful Experiment in English Hexameters]	[81]
[Birthday Verses]	[83]
[Estrangement]	[85]
[Phœbe]	[86]
[Das Ewig-Weibliche]	[89]
[The Recall]	[91]
[Absence]	[92]
[Monna Lisa]	[93]
[The Optimist]	[94]
[On burning some Old Letters]	[96]
[The Protest]	[99]
[The Petition]	[100]
[Fact or Fancy?]	[101]
[Agro-Dolce]	[103]
[The Broken Tryst]	[104]
[Casa sin Alma]	[105]
[A Christmas Carol]	[106]
[My Portrait Gallery]	[108]
[Paolo to Francesca]	[109]
[Sonnet. Scottish Border]	[110]
[Sonnet. On being asked for an Autograph in Venice]	[111]
[The Dancing Bear]	[112]
[The Maple]	[113]
[Nightwatches]	[114]
[Death of Queen Mercedes]	[115]
[Prison of Cervantes]	[116]
[To a Lady playing on the Cithern]	[117]
[The Eye’s Treasury]	[118]
[Pessimoptimism]	[119]
[The Brakes]	[120]
[A Foreboding]	[121]
III. FANCY.
[Under the October Maples]	[125]
[Love’s Clock]	[127]
[Eleanor makes Macaroons]	[129]
[Telepathy]	[131]
[Scherzo]	[132]
[“Franciscus de Verulamio sic cogitavit”]	[134]
[Auspex]	[136]
[The Pregnant Comment]	[137]
[The Lesson]	[139]
[Science and Poetry]	[141]
[A New Year’s Greeting]	[142]
[The Discovery]	[143]
[With a Seashell]	[144]
[The Secret]	[146]
IV. HUMOR AND SATIRE.
[Fitz Adam’s Story]	[149]
[The Origin of Didactic Poetry]	[173]
[The Flying Dutchman]	[177]
[Credidimus Jovem Regnare]	[180]
[Tempora Mutantur]	[189]
[In the Half-Way House]	[192]
[At the Burns Centennial]	[196]
[In an Album]	[205]
[At the Commencement Dinner, 1866]	[207]
[A Parable]	[212]
V. EPIGRAMS.
[Sayings]	[215]
[For a Bell at Cornell University]	[216]
[For a Memorial Window to Sir Walter Raleigh]	[216]
[Proposed for a Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument in Boston]	[216]
[A Misconception]	[217]
[The Boss]	[217]
[Sun-Worship]	[217]
[Changed Perspective]	[217]
[With a Pair of Gloves lost in a Wager]	[218]
[Sixty-Eighth Birthday]	[218]