POEMS
OF
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
BY
NATHAN HASKELL DOLE
NEW YORK
THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1892, 1898,
By T. Y. CROWELL & CO.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.
| CONTENTS. | |
|---|---|
| PAGE | |
| BiographicalSketch | [ix] |
| EARLY POEMS. | |
| Sonnet | [1] |
| Hakon's Lay | [1] |
| Out of Doors | [2] |
| A Reverie | [4] |
| In Sadness | [6] |
| Farewell | [7] |
| A Dirge | [10] |
| Fancies about a Rosebud | [15] |
| New Year's Eve, 1844 | [17] |
| A Mystical Ballad | [20] |
| Opening Poem to A Year's Life | [23] |
| Dedication to Volume of Poems entitled A Year'sLife | [24] |
| The Serenade | [24] |
| Song | [26] |
| The Departed | [27] |
| The Bobolink | [30] |
| Forgetfulness | [32] |
| Song | [33] |
| The Poet | [34] |
| Flowers | [35] |
| The Lover | [39] |
| To E. W. G. | [40] |
| Isabel | [42] |
| Music | [43] |
| Song | [46] |
| Ianthe | [48] |
| Love's Altar | [52] |
| Impartiality | [54] |
| Bellerophon | [54] |
| Something Natural | [58] |
| A Feeling | [58] |
| The Lost Child | [59] |
| The Church | [60] |
| The Unlovely | [61] |
| Love-Song | [62] |
| Song | [63] |
| A Love-Dream | [65] |
| Fourth of July Ode | [66] |
| Sphinx | [67] |
| "Goe, Little Booke!" | [69] |
| Sonnets | [71] |
| Sonnets on Names | [82] |
| MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. | |
| Threnodia | [85] |
| The Sirens | [87] |
| Irené | [90] |
| Serenade | [93] |
| With a Pressed Flower | [93] |
| The Beggar | [94] |
| My Love | [95] |
| Summer Storm | [97] |
| Love | [100] |
| To Perdita, Singing | [101] |
| The Moon | [103] |
| Remembered Music | [104] |
| Song | [105] |
| Allegra | [105] |
| The Fountain | [106] |
| Ode | [107] |
| The Fatherland | [112] |
| The Forlorn | [112] |
| Midnight | [114] |
| A Prayer | [115] |
| The Heritage | [116] |
| The Rose: A Ballad | [118] |
| A Legend of Brittany | [120] |
| Prometheus | [139] |
| Song | [147] |
| Rosaline | [148] |
| The Shepherd of King Admetus | [151] |
| The Token | [152] |
| An Incident in a Railroad Car | [153] |
| Rhœcus | [156] |
| The Falcon | [160] |
| Trial | [161] |
| A Requiem | [161] |
| A Parable | [162] |
| A Glance behind the Curtain | [164] |
| Song | [172] |
| A Chippewa Legend | [172] |
| Stanzas on Freedom | [176] |
| Columbus | [176] |
| An Incident of the Fire at Hamburg | [183] |
| The Sower | [185] |
| Hunger and Cold | [187] |
| The Landlord | [189] |
| To a Pine-Tree | [190] |
| Si Descendero in Infernum, Ades | [191] |
| To the Past | [192] |
| To the Future | [194] |
| Hebe | [196] |
| The Search | [197] |
| The Present Crisis | [199] |
| An Indian-Summer Reverie | [203] |
| The Growth of the Legend | [211] |
| A Contrast | [213] |
| Extreme Unction | [214] |
| The Oak | [216] |
| Ambrose | [217] |
| Above and Below | [219] |
| The Captive | [220] |
| The Birch-Tree | [223] |
| An Interview with Miles Standish | [224] |
| On the Capture of Certain Fugitive Slaves nearWashington | [228] |
| To the Dandelion | [230] |
| The Ghost-Seer | [231] |
| Studies for Two Heads | [236] |
| On a Portrait of Dante by Giotto | [239] |
| On the Death of a Friend's Child | [240] |
| Eurydice | [242] |
| She Came and Went | [245] |
| The Changeling | [245] |
| The Pioneer | [247] |
| Longing | [248] |
| Ode to France | [249] |
| A Parable | [254] |
| Ode | [255] |
| Lines | [257] |
| To —— | [258] |
| Freedom | [259] |
| Bibliolatres | [261] |
| Beaver Brook | [262] |
| Appledore | [263] |
| Dara | [265] |
| TO J. F. H. | [267] |
| MEMORIAL VERSES. | |
| Kossuth | [268] |
| To Lamartine | [269] |
| To John G. Palfrey | [271] |
| To W. L. Garrison | [273] |
| On the Death of C. T. Torrey | [274] |
| Elegy on the Death of Dr. Channing | [275] |
| To the Memory of Hood | [277] |
| Sonnets | [278] |
| L'envoi | [289] |
| The Vision of Sir Launfal | [293] |
| A Fable for Critics | [303] |
| The Biglow Papers | [357] |
| The Unhappy Lot of Mr Knott | [471] |
| An Oriental Apologue | [496] |