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James Russell Lowell

February 22, 1819 – August 12, 1891


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Poem TitleFirst LinesPeriod# Lines# Reads
1: A Chippewa Legend The old Chief, feeling now wellnigh his end, 130523
2: A Christmas Carol For The Sunday-School Children Of The Church Of The Disciples What means this glory round our feet, 28385
3: A Contrast Thy love thou sendest oft to me, 20336
4: A Fable For Critics Phoebus, sitting one day in a laurel-tree's shade, 1809502
5: A Familiar Epistle To A Friend Alike I hate to be your debtor, 192370
6: A Foreboding What were the whole void world, if thou wert dead, 14346
7: A Glance Behind The Curtain We see but half the causes of our deeds, 333386
8: A Legend Of Brittany Fair as a summer dream was Margaret, 648388
9: A Mood I go to the ridge in the forest 51369
10: A New Year's Greeting The century numbers fourscore years; 15325
11: A Parable Worn and footsore was the Prophet, 44380
12: A Parable Said Christ our Lord, 'I will go and see 48353
13: A Parable An ass munched thistles, while a nightingale 8351
14: A Prayer God! do not let my loved one die, 18358
15: A Requiem Ay, pale and silent maiden, 48360
16: A Valentine Let others wonder what fair face 20364
17: A Winter-Evening Hymn To My Fire Beauty on my hearth-stone blazing! 185342
18: A Youthful Experiment In English Hexameters - Impressions Of Homer Sometimes come pauses of calm, when the rapt bard, holding his heart back, 12346
19: Above And Below O dwellers in the valley-land, 48418
20: Absence Sleep is Death's image,--poets tell us so; 12312
21: After The Burial Yes, faith is a goodly anchor; 52366
22: Agro-Dolce One kiss from all others prevents me, 16317
23: Al Fresco The dandelions and buttercups 106316
24: Aladdin When I was a beggarly boy 16356
25: All-Saints One feast, of holy days the crest, 24358
26: Allegra I would more natures were like thine, 36369
27: Ambrose Never, surely, was holier man 66321
28: An April Birthday--At Sea On this wild waste, where never blossom came, 24349
29: An Ember Picture How strange are the freaks of memory! 52314
30: An Epistle To George William Curtis Curtis, whose Wit, with Fancy arm in arm, 269324
31: An Incident In A Railroad Car He spoke of Burns: men rude and rough 88316
32: An Incident Of The Fire At Hamburg The tower of old Saint Nicholas soared upward to the skies, 41328
33: An Indian-Summer Reverie What visionary tints the year puts on, 280351
34: An Interview With Miles Standish I sat one evening in my room, 152342
35: An Invitation To J[Ohn] F[Rancis] H[Eath] Nine years have slipt like hour-glass sand 125352
36: An Ode For The Fourth Of July, 1876 Entranced I saw a vision in the cloud 330375
37: An Oriental Apologue Somewhere in India, upon a time, 256302
38: Anti-Apis Praisest Law, friend? We, too, love it much as they that love it best; 52336
39: Arcadia Rediviva I, walking the familiar street, 88320
40: At The Burns Centennial A hundred years! they're quickly fled, 192301
41: At The Commencement Dinner, 1866, In Acknowledging A Toast To The Smith Professor I rise, Mr. Chairman, as both of us know, 84390
42: Auf Wiedersehen The little gate was reached at last, 50328
43: Auspex My heart, I cannot still it, 18339
44: Bankside I christened you in happier days, before 56335
45: Beaver Brook Hushed with broad sunlight lies the hill, 48385
46: Bibliolatres Bowing thyself in dust before a Book, 42293
47: Birthday Verses - Written In A Child's Album Twas sung of old in hut and hall 30340
48: Bon Voyage Ship, blest to bear such freight across the blue, 14351
49: Casa Sin Alma Silencioso por la puerta 6281
50: Columbus The cordage creaks and rattles in the wind, 282299
51: Credidimus Jovem Regnare O days endeared to every Muse, 242319
52: Dara When Persia's sceptre trembled in a hand 60372
53: Das Ewig-Weibliche How was I worthy so divine a loss, 20294
54: Death Of Queen Mercedes Hers all that Earth could promise or bestow, 14310
55: E.G. De R. Why should I seek her spell to decompose 14353
56: Eleanor Makes Macaroons Light of triumph in her eyes, 1884 51309
57: Elegy On The Death Of Dr. Channing I do not come to weep above thy pall, 72298
58: Endymion - A Mystical Comment On Titian'S 'Sacred And Profane Love' My day began not till the twilight fell, 229305
59: Estrangement The path from me to you that led, 15288
60: Eurydice Heaven's cup held down to me I drain, 85280
61: Extreme Unction Go! leave me, Priest; my soul would be 88338
62: Fact Or Fancy? In town I hear, scarce wakened yet, 36351
63: Fancy's Casuistry How struggles with the tempest's swells 60335
64: Fitz Adam's Story The next whose fortune 'twas a tale to tell 632294
65: For An Autograph Though old the thought and oft exprest, 18328
66: Fragments Of An Unfinished Poem I am a man of forty, sirs, a native of East Haddam, 174320
67: Franciscus De Verulamio Sic Cogitavit That's a rather bold speech, my Lord Bacon, 36340
68: Freedom Are we, then, wholly fallen? Can it be 81358
69: Godminster Chimes Godminster? Is it Fancy's play? 56350
70: Gold Egg: A Dream-Fantasy I swam with undulation soft, 165351
71: Heartsease And Rue The electric nerve, whose instantaneous thrill 562297
72: Hebe I saw the twinkle of white feet, 28342
73: How I Consulted The Oracle Of The Goldfishes What know we of the world immense 242319
74: Hunger And Cold Sisters two, all praise to you, 80360
75: In A Copy Of Omar Khayyám These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, 12340
76: In An Album The misspelt scrawl, upon the wall 24309
77: In The Half-Way House At twenty we fancied the blest Middle Ages 56334
78: In The Twilight Men say the sullen instrument, 65302
79: Inscription - A Misconception B, taught by Pope to do his good by stealth, 4373
80: Inscription - Changed Perspective Full oft the pathway to her door 4299
81: Inscription - International Copyright In vain we call old notions fudge, 4306
82: Inscription - Sixty-Eighth Birthday As life runs on, the road grows strange 4314
83: Inscription - Sun-Worship If I were the rose at your window, 335
84: Inscription - The Boss Skilled to pull wires, he baffles Nature's hope, 2347
85: Inscription For A Bell At Cornell University I call as fly the irrevocable hours, 4342
86: Inscription For A Memorial Window To Sir Walter Raleigh, Set Up In St. Margaret's, Westminster, By American Contributors The New World's sons, from England's breasts we drew 4277
87: Inscription Proposed For A Soldiers' And Sailors' Monument In Boston To those who died for her on land and sea, 4319
88: Inscription With A Pair Of Gloves Lost In A Wager We wagered, she for sunshine, I for rain, 4312
89: Invita Minerva The Bardling came where by a river grew 36344
90: Irené Hers is a spirit deep, and crystal-clear; 96352
91: Jeffries Wyman The wisest man could ask no more of Fate 14317
92: Joseph Winlock Shy soul and stalwart, man of patient will 14332
93: Kossuth A race of nobles may die out, 32334
94: L'Envoi Whether my heart hath wiser grown or not, 141369
95: L'Envoi To The Muse Whither? Albeit I follow fast, 152308
96: Letter From Boston By way of saving time, 1846 213317
97: Lines Suggested By The Graves Of Two English Soldiers On Concord Battle-Ground The same good blood that now refills 56281
98: Longing Of all the myriad moods of mind 32367
99: Love True Love is but a humble, low-born thing, 55404
100: Love And Thought What hath Love with Thought to do? 18335
101: Love's Clock - A Pastoral O Dryad feet, 28311
102: Mahmood The Image-Breaker Old events have modern meanings; only that survives 22348
103: Masaccio - In The Brancacci Chapel He came to Florence long ago, 36288
104: Memoriae Positum Beneath the trees, 90323
105: Memorial Poem If I let fall a word of bitter mirth 16308
106: Midnight The moon shines white and silent 36335
107: Monna Lisa She gave me all that woman can, 8299
108: My Love Not as all other women are 50381
109: My Portrait Gallery Oft round my hall of portraiture I gaze, 16333
110: New-Year's Eve, 1850 This is the midnight of the century,--hark! 18311
111: Nightwatches While the slow clock, as they were miser's gold, 14286
112: Ode In the old days of awe and keen-eyed wonder, 168345
113: Ode Read At The One Hundredth Anniversary Of The Fight At Concord Bridge Who cometh over the hills, 261303
114: Ode Recited At The Harvard Commemoration Weak-winged is song, 1865 428332
115: Ode To France As, flake by flake, the beetling avalanches 177337
116: Ode To Happiness Spirit, that rarely comest now 118340
117: Ode Written For The Celebration Of The Introduction Of The Cochituate Water Into The City Of Boston My name is Water: I have sped 48326
118: On A Bust Of General Grant Strong, simple, silent are the [steadfast] laws 66280
119: On A Portrait Of Dante By Giotto Can this be thou who, lean and pale, 36334
120: On An Autumn Sketch Of H.G. Wild Thanks to the artist, ever on my wall 14301
121: On Board The '76 Our ship lay tumbling in an angry sea, 1884 66506
122: On Burning Some Old Letters With what odorous woods and spices 78316
123: On Hearing A Sonata Of Beethoven's Played In The Next Room Unseen Musician, thou art sure to please, 14345
124: On Planting A Tree At Inveraray Who does his duty is a question 32293
125: On Receiving A Copy Of Mr. Austin Dobson's 'Old World Idylls' At length arrived, your book I take 30295
126: On The Capture Of Fugitive Slaves Near Washington Look on who will in apathy, and stifle they who can, 44279
127: On The Death Of A Friend's Child Death never came so nigh to me before, 96301
128: On The Death Of Charles Turner Torrey Woe worth the hour when it is crime 35310
129: Palinode--December Like some lorn abbey now, the wood 30307
130: Paolo To Francesca I was with thee in Heaven: I cannot tell 14353
131: Pessimoptimism Ye little think what toil it was to build 14305
132: Phoebe Ere pales in Heaven the morning star, 52398
133: Pictures From Appledore A heap of bare and splintery crags 400279
134: Prison Of Cervantes Seat of all woes? Though Nature's firm decree 13315
135: Prometheus One after one the stars have risen and set, 364324
136: Remembered Music - A Fragment Thick-rushing, like an ocean vast 15384
137: Rhoecus God sends his teachers unto every age, 160299
138: Rosaline Thou look'dst on me all yesternight, 88374
139: Sayings In life's small things be resolute and great 12358
140: Scherzo When the down is on the chin 24304
141: Science And Poetry He who first stretched his nerves of subtile wire 14344
142: Seaweed Not always unimpeded can I pray, 25338
143: Self-Study A presence both by night and day, 28414
144: Serenade From the close-shut windows gleams no spark, 24341
145: She Came And Went As a twig trembles, which a bird 20351
146: Si Descendero In Infernum, Ades O wandering dim on the extremest edge 48274
147: Song Violet! sweet violet! 38317
148: Song O moonlight deep and tender, 20319
149: Song - To M.L. A lily thou wast when I saw thee first, 26363
150: Sonnet - Scottish Border As sinks the sun behind yon alien hills 14321
151: Sonnet On Being Asked For An Autograph In Venice Amid these fragments of heroic days 14355
152: Sonnet To Fanny Alexander Unconscious as the sunshine, simply sweet 14333
153: Sonnets - I Through suffering and sorrow thou hast passed 14304
154: Sonnets - II What were I, Love, if I were stripped of thee, 14331
155: Sonnets - III I would not have this perfect love of ours 14308
156: Sonnets - IV For this true nobleness I seek in vain, 14348
157: Sonnets - IX My Love, I have no fear that thou shouldst die; 14321
158: Sonnets - V Great soul, thou sittest with me in my room, 14300
159: Sonnets - VI Great Truths are portions of the soul of man; 14280
160: Sonnets - VII I ask not for those thoughts, that sudden leap 14375
161: Sonnets - VIII Maiden, when such a soul as thine is born, 14362
162: Sonnets - X I cannot think that thou shouldst pass away, 14329
163: Sonnets - XI There never yet was flower fair in vain, 14283
164: Sonnets - XII The hope of Truth grows stronger, day by day; 14315
165: Sonnets - XIII Beloved, in the noisy city here, 14297
166: Sonnets - XIV As the broad ocean endlessly upheaveth, 14314
167: Sonnets - XIX Far 'yond this narrow parapet of Time, 14309
168: Sonnets - XV Once hardly in a cycle blossometh 14305
169: Sonnets - XVI The love of all things springs from love of one; 14301
170: Sonnets - XVII A poet cannot strive for despotism; 14346
171: Sonnets - XVIII Therefore think not the Past is wise alone, 14312
172: Sonnets - XX Mary, since first I knew thee, to this hour, 14344
173: Sonnets - XXI Our love is not a fading, earthly flower: 14336
174: Sonnets - XXII These rugged, wintry days I scarce could bear, 14323
175: Sonnets - XXIII He stood upon the world's broad threshold; wide 14306
176: Sonnets - XXIV They pass me by like shadows, crowds on crowds, 14304
177: Sonnets - XXV I grieve not that ripe Knowledge takes away 14349
178: Sonnets - XXVI Giddings, far rougher names than thine have grown 14308
179: Sonnets - XXVII I thought our love at full, but I did err; 14327
180: St. Michael The Weigher Stood the tall Archangel weighing 46286
181: Stanzas On Freedom Men! whose boast it is that ye 32327
182: Studies For Two Heads Some sort of heart I know is hers, 126285
183: Summer Storm Untremulous in the river clear, 95324
184: Telepathy And how could you dream of meeting? 16301
185: Tempora Mutantur The world turns mild; democracy, they say, 81311
186: The Beggar A beggar through the world am I, 46877
187: The Birch-Tree Rippling through thy branches goes the sunshine, 30325
188: The Black Preacher - A Breton Legend At Carnac in Brittany, close on the bay, 88295
189: The Brakes What countless years and wealth of brain were spent 14281
190: The Broken Tryst Walking alone where we walked together, 8341
191: The Captive It was past the hour of trysting, 90300
192: The Cathedral Far through the memory shines a happy day, 819299
193: The Changeling I had a little daughter 56339
194: The Courtin' God makes sech nights, all white an' still 96312
195: The Dancing Bear Far over Elf-land poets stretch their sway, 14300
196: The Darkened Mind The fire is turning clear and blithely, 30360
197: The Dead House Here once my step was quickened, 52349
198: The Discovery I watched a moorland torrent run 12291
199: The Eye's Treasury Gold of the reddening sunset, backward thrown 14282
200: The Falcon I know a falcon swift and peerless 20349
201: The Fatherland Where is the true man's fatherland? 24404
202: The Finding Of The Lyre There lay upon the ocean's shore 32328
203: The First Snow-Fall The snow had begun in the gloaming, 40342
204: The Flying Dutchman Don't believe in the Flying Dutchman? 52344
205: The Foot-Path It mounts athwart the windy hill 64312
206: The Forlorn The night is dark, the stinging sleet, 72305
207: The Fountain Into the sunshine, 32304
208: The Fountain Of Youth Tis a woodland enchanted! 235330
209: The Ghost-Seer Ye who, passing graves by night, 182299
210: The Growth Of The Legend - A Fragment A legend that grew in the forest's hush 83336
211: The Heritage The rich man's son inherits lands, 63361
212: The Landlord What boot your houses and your lands? 35332
213: The Lesson I sat and watched the walls of night 28295
214: The Maple The Maple puts her corals on in May, 14280
215: The Miner Down 'mid the tangled roots of things 36366
216: The Moon My soul was like the sea. 32328
217: The Nest When oaken woods with buds are pink, 30302
218: The Nightingale In The Study Come forth!' my catbird calls to me, 68313
219: The Nobler Lover If he be a nobler lover, take him! 24322
220: The Nomades What Nature makes in any mood 66336
221: The Oak What gnarlèd stretch, what depth of shade, is his! 48441
222: The Optimist Turbid from London's noise and smoke, 35298
223: The Origin Of Didactic Poetry When wise Minerva still was young 88322
224: The Parting Of The Ways Who hath not been a poet? Who hath not, 119342
225: The Petition Oh, tell me less or tell me more, 10356
226: The Pioneer What man would live coffined with brick and stone, 59296
227: The Pregnant Comment Opening one day a book of mine, 29351
228: The Present Crisis When a deed is done for Freedom, through the broad earth's aching breast 90338
229: The Protest I could not bear to see those eyes 14302
230: The Recall Come back before the birds are flown, 14286
231: The Rose: A Ballad In his tower sat the poet 72339
232: The Search I went to seek for Christ, 56329
233: The Secret I have a fancy: how shall I bring it 14303
234: The Shepherd Of King Admetus There came a youth upon the earth, 44297
235: The Singing Leaves - A Ballad What fairings will ye that I bring?' 100317
236: The Sirens The sea is lonely, the sea is dreary, 112303
237: The Sower I saw a Sower walking slow 44329
238: The Token It is a mere wild rosebud, 32342
239: The Two Gunners - A Fable Two fellers, Isrel named and Joe, 60319
240: The Unhappy Lot Of Mr. Knott My worthy friend, A. Gordon Knott, 916328
241: The Vision Of Sir Launfal Over his keys the musing organist, 360308
242: The Voyage To Vinland Now Biörn, the son of Heriulf, had ill days 296291
243: The Washers Of The Shroud Along a river-side, I know not where, 1861 110316
244: The Wind-Harp I treasure in secret some long, fine hair 35326
245: Threnodia Gone, gone from us! and shall we see 106323
246: To A Friend Who Gave Me A Group Of Weeds And Grasses, After A Drawing Of DÜrer True as the sun's own work, but more refined, 14313
247: To A Lady Playing On The Cithern So dreamy-soft the notes, so far away 14313
248: To A Pine-Tree Far up on Katahdin thou towerest, 45338
249: To C.F. Bradford On The Gift Of A Meerschaum Pipe The pipe came safe, and welcome too, 58299
250: To Charles Eliot Norton - Agro Dolce The wind is roistering out of doors, 36322
251: To H.W.L. On His Birthday, 27Th February, 1867 I need not praise the sweetness of his song, 35292
252: To Holmes On His Seventy-Fifth Birthday Dear Wendell, why need count the years 64291
253: To John Gorham Palfrey There are who triumph in a losing cause, 59322
254: To Lamartine I did not praise thee when the crowd, 1848 66342
255: To Miss D.T. On Her Giving Me A Drawing Of Little Street Arabs As, cleansed of Tiber's and Oblivion's slime, 14335
256: To Mr. John Bartlett - Who Had Sent Me A Seven-Pound Trout Fit for an Abbot of Theleme, 50344
257: To Perdita, Singing Thy voice is like a fountain, 88394
258: To The Dandelion Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, 54336
259: To The Future O Land of Promise! from what Pisgah's height 83308
260: To The Memory Of Hood Another star 'neath Time's horizon dropped, 32359
261: To The Past Wondrous and awful are thy silent halls, 63307
262: To W.L. Garrison In a small chamber, friendless and unseen, 44324
263: To Whittier On His Seventy-Fifth Birthday New England's poet, rich in love as years, 14339
264: To---- We, too, have autumns, when our leaves 32299
265: Trial Whether the idle prisoner through his grate 27316
266: Turner's Old Téméraire Thou wast the fairest of all man-made things; 50316
267: Two Scenes From The Life Of Blondel Twere no hard task, perchance, to win 1863 96285
268: Under The October Maples What mean these banners spread, 24359
269: Under The Old Elm Words pass as wind, but where great deeds were done 433278
270: Under The Willows Frank-hearted hostess of the field and wood, 388296
271: Verses Intended To Go With A Posset Dish To My Dear Little Goddaughter, 1882 In good old times, which means, you know, 52281
272: Villa Franca Wait a little: do we not wait? 1859 84332
273: What Rabbi Jehosha Said Rabbi Jehosha used to say 30329
274: With A Copy Of Aucassin And Nicolete Leaves fit to have been poor Juliet's cradle-rhyme, 14309
275: With A Pressed Flower This little blossom from afar 24349
276: With A Seashell Shell, whose lips, than mine more cold, 36337
277: With An Armchair About the oak that framed this chair, of old 28329
278: Without And Within My coachman, in the moonlight there, 36316
279: Yussouf A stranger came one night to Yussouf's tent, 30355




About:
James Russell Lowell was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets who rivaled the popularity of British poets. These poets usually used conventional forms and meters in their poetry, making them suitable for families entertaining at their fireside.


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