American Literature – Littérature Américaine – Американская литература
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A Chippewa Legend
The old Chief, feeling now wellnigh his end,
Called his two eldest children to his side,
And gave them, in few words, his parting charge! …
A Christmas Carol Sentiment
‘What means this glory round our feet,’
The Magi mused, ‘more bright than morn?’
And voices chanted clear and sweet, …
A Contrast
Thy love thou sendest oft to me,
And still as oft I thrust it back;
Thy messengers I could not see …
A Fable For Critics
Phoebus, sitting one day in a laurel-tree’s shade,
Was reminded of Daphne, of whom it was made,
For the god being one day too warm in his wooing, …
A Familiar Epistle to a Friend
Alike I hate to be your debtor,
Or write a mere perfunctory letter;
For letters, so it seems to me, …
A Foreboding Sentiment
What were the whole void world, if thou wert dead,
Whose briefest absence can eclipse my day,
And make the hours that danced with Time away …
A Glance behind the Curtain
We see but half the causes of our deeds,
Seeking them wholly in the outer life,
And heedless of the encircling spirit-world,
A Legend of Brittany
Fair as a summer dream was Margaret,
Such dream as in a poet’s soul might start,
Musing of old loves while the moon doth set: …
A Misconception
B, taught by Pope to do his good by stealth,
‘Twixt participle and noun no difference feeling, ..
A Mood
I go to the ridge in the forest
I haunted in days gone by,
But thou, O Memory, pourest …
A New Year’s Greeting Fancy
The century numbers fourscore years;
You, fortressed in your teens,
To Time’s alarums close your ears, …
A Parable, (An ass munched thistles, while a nightingale)
An ass munched thistles, while a nightingale
From passion’s fountain flooded all the vale.
‘Hee-haw!’ cried he, ‘I hearken,’ as who knew …
A Parable (Said Christ our Lord, I will go and see)
Said Christ our Lord, ‘I will go and see
How the men, my brethren, believe in me.’
He passed not again through the gate of birth, …
A Parable (Worn and footsore was the Prophet) Earlier Poem
Worn and footsore was the Prophet,
When he gained the holy hill;
‘God has left the earth,’ he murmured, …
A Prayer Earlier Poem
God! do not let my loved one die,
But rather wait until the time
That I am grown in purity …
A Requiem Earlier Poem
Ay, pale and silent maiden,
Cold as thou liest there,
Thine was the sunniest nature …
A Valentine
Let others wonder what fair face
Upon their path shall shine,
And, fancying half, half hoping, trace …
A Winter-Evening Hymn to my Fire
Beauty on my hearth-stone blazing!
To-night the triple Zoroaster
Shall my prophet be and master; …
A Youthful Experiment in English Hexameters Sentiment
Sometimes come pauses of calm, when the rapt bard, holding his heart back,
Over his deep mind muses, as when o’er awe-stricken ocean
Poises a heapt cloud luridly, ripening the gale and the thunder; …
Above and Below
O dwellers in the valley-land,
Who in deep twilight grope and cower,
Till the slow mountain’s dial-hand …
Absence. Sentiment
Sleep is Death’s image,—poets tell us so;
But Absence is the bitter self of Death,
And, you away, Life’s lips their red forego, …
After the Burial.
Yes, faith is a goodly anchor;
When skies are sweet as a psalm,
At the bows it lolls so stalwart,
Agassiz. Friendship
Come
Dicesti egli ebbe? non viv’ egli ancora?
Non fiere gli occhi suoi lo dolce lome? ….
Agro-Dolce. Sentiment
One kiss from all others prevents me,
And sets all my pulses astir,
And burns on my lips and torments me: …
Al Fresco.
The dandelions and buttercups
Gild all the lawn; the drowsy bee
Stumbles among the clover-tops, …
Aladdin.
When I was a beggarly boy
And lived in a cellar damp,
I had not a friend nor a toy, …
All-Saints.
One feast, of holy days the crest,
I, though no Churchman, love to keep,
All-Saints,—the unknown good that rest …
Allegra Earlier Poem
I would more natures were like thine,
That never casts a glance before,
Thou Hebe, who thy heart’s bright wine …
Ambrose.
Never, surely, was holier man
Than Ambrose, since the world began;
With diet spare and raiment thin …
An Ember Picture
How strange are the freaks of memory!
The lessons of life we forget,
While a trifle, a trick of color, …
An Epistle to George William Curtis Friendship
Curtis, whose Wit, with Fancy arm in arm,
Masks half its muscle in its skill to charm,
And who so gently can the Wrong expose …
An Incident of the Fire at Hamburg
The tower of old Saint Nicholas soared upward to the skies,
Like some huge piece of Nature’s make, the growth of centuries;
You could not deem its crowding spires a work of human art, …
An Incident in a Railroad Car
He spoke of Burns: men rude and rough
Pressed round to hear the praise of one
Whose heart was made of manly, simple stuff, …
An Indian-Summer Reverie
What visionary tints the year puts on,
When falling leaves falter through motionless air
Or humbly cling and shiver to be gone! …
An Interview with Miles Standish
I sat one evening in my room,
In that sweet hour of twilight
When blended thoughts, half light, half gloom, …
An Invitation
Nine years have slipt like hour-glass sand
From life’s still-emptying globe away,
Since last, dear friend, I clasped your hand, …
An Oriental Apologue
Somewhere in India, upon a time,
(Read it not Injah, or you spoil the verse,)
There dwelt two saints whose privilege sublime …
Anti-Apis.
Praisest Law, friend? We, too, love it much as they that love it best;
‘Tis the deep, august foundation, whereon Peace and Justice rest;
On the rock primeval, hidden in the Past its bases be, …
April Birthday, An—at Sea.
On this wild waste, where never blossom came,
Save the white wind-flower to the billow’s cap,
Or those pale disks of momentary flame, ….
Arcadia Rediviva. Sentiment
I, walking the familiar street,
While a crammed horse-car jingled through it,
Was lifted from my prosy feet
At the Burns Centennial. Humor and Satire
A hundred years! they’re quickly fled,
With all their joy and sorrow;
Their dead leaves shed upon the dead, …
At the Commencement Dinner, 1866. Humor and Satire
I rise, Mr. Chairman, as both of us know,
With the impromptu I promised you three weeks ago,
Dragged up to my doom by your might and my mane, …
Auf Wiedersehen.
SUMMER
The little gate was reached at last,
Half hid in lilacs down the lane; …
Auspex. Fancy
My heart, I cannot still it,
Nest that had song-birds in it;
And when the last shall go, …
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Bankside. Friendship
I christened you in happier days, before
These gray forebodings on my brow were seen;
You are still lovely in your new-leaved green; …
Beaver Brook.
Hushed with broad sunlight lies the hill,
And, minuting the long day’s loss,
The cedar’s shadow, slow and still, …
Bibliolatres.
Bowing thyself in dust before a Book,
And thinking the great God is thine alone,
O rash iconoclast, thou wilt not brook …
Birthday Verses. Sentiment
‘Twas sung of old in hut and hall
How once a king in evil hour
Hung musing o’er his castle wall, ….
Bon Voyage. Friendship
Ship, blest to bear such freight across the blue,
May stormless stars control thy horoscope;
In keel and hull, in every spar and rope, …
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Casa sin Alma. Sentiment
Silencioso por la puerta
Voy de su casa desierta
Do siempre feliz entré, …
Changed Perspective
Full oft the pathway to her door
I’ve measured by the selfsame track, ..
Columbus
The cordage creaks and rattles in the wind,
With whims of sudden hush; the reeling sea
Now thumps like solid rock beneath the stern, …
Credidimus Jovem regnare Humor and Satire
O days endeared to every Muse,
When nobody had any Views,
Nor, while the cloudscape of his mind …
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Dara
When Persia’s sceptre trembled in a hand
Wilted with harem-heats, and all the land
Was hovered over by those vulture ills …
Das Ewig-Weibliche Sentiment
How was I worthy so divine a loss,
Deepening my midnights, kindling all my morns?
Why waste such precious wood to make my cross, …
Death of Queen Mercedes Sentiment
Hers all that Earth could promise or bestow,—
Youth, Beauty, Love, a crown, the beckoning years,
Lids never wet, unless with joyous tears, …
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E.G. de R. Friendship
Why should I seek her spell to decompose
Or to its source each rill of influence trace
That feeds the brimming river of her grace? …
Eleanor makes Macaroons Fancy
Light of triumph in her eyes,
Eleanor her apron ties;
As she pushes back her sleeves, …
Elegy on the Death of Dr. Channing MEMORIAL VERSES
I do not come to weep above thy pall,
And mourn the dying-out of noble powers,
The poet’s clearer eye should see, in all …
Endymion Sentiment
My day began not till the twilight fell,
And, lo, in ether from heaven’s sweetest well,
The New Moon swam divinely isolate …
Estrangement Sentiment
The path from me to you that led,
Untrodden long, with grass is grown,
Mute carpet that his lieges spread …
Eurydice
Heaven’s cup held down to me I drain,
The sunshine mounts and spurs my brain;
Bathing in grass, with thirsty eye …
Extreme Unction
Go! leave me, Priest; my soul would be
Alone with the consoler, Death;
Far sadder eyes than thine will see …
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Fact or Fancy? Sentiment
In town I hear, scarce wakened yet,
My neighbor’s clock behind the wall
Record the day’s increasing debt, …
Fancy’s Casuistry
How struggles with the tempest’s swells
That warning of tumultuous bells!
The fire is loose! and frantic knells …
Fitz Adam’s Story Humor and Satire
The next whose fortune ’twas a tale to tell
Was one whom men, before they thought, loved well,
And after thinking wondered why they did, …
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
Such milk as bids remember whence we came; ..
- Proposed for a Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument in Boston.
To those who died for her on land and sea,
That she might have a country great and free, …
For an Autograph
Though old the thought and oft exprest,
‘Tis his at last who says it best,—
I’ll try my fortune with the rest. …
Fragments Of An Unfinished Poem
I am a man of forty, sirs, a native of East Haddam,
And have some reason to surmise that I descend from Adam;
But what’s my pedigree to you? That I will soon unravel; …
‘Franciscus de Verulamio sic cogitavit.’ Fancy
That’s a rather bold speech, my Lord Bacon,
For, indeed, is’t so easy to know
Just how much we from others have taken, …
Freedom
Are we, then, wholly fallen? Can it be
That thou, North wind, that from thy mountains bringest
Their spirit to our plains, and thou, blue sea, …
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Godminster Chimes
Godminster? Is it Fancy’s play?
I know not, but the word
Sings in my heart, nor can I say …
Gold Egg: A Dream-Fantasy
I swam with undulation soft,
Adrift on Vischer’s ocean,
And, from my cockboat up aloft, …
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Hebe
I saw the twinkle of white feet,
I saw the flush of robes descending;
Before her ran an influence fleet, …
How I consulted the Oracle of the Goldfishes
What know we of the world immense
Beyond the narrow ring of sense?
What should we know, who lounge about …
Hunger and Cold
Sisters two, all praise to you,
With your faces pinched and blue;
To the poor man you’ve been true …
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In a Copy of Omar Khayyam Friendship
These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred,
Each softly lucent as a rounded moon;
The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, …
In an Album Humor and Satire
The misspelt scrawl, upon the wall
By some Pompeian idler traced,
In ashes packed (ironic fact!) …
In the Half-Way House Humor and Satire
At twenty we fancied the blest Middle Ages
A spirited cross of romantic and grand,
All templars and minstrels and ladies and pages, ….
In the Twilight
Men say the sullen instrument,
That, from the Master’s bow,
With pangs of joy or woe, …
Inscriptions.
For a Bell at Cornell University.
I call as fly the irrevocable hours,
Futile as air or strong as fate to make ..
International Copyright
In vain we call old notions fudge,
And bend our conscience to our dealing; ..
Invita Minerva
The Bardling came where by a river grew
The pennoned reeds, that, as the west-wind blew,
Gleamed and sighed plaintively, as if they knew …
Irené Earlier Poem
Hers is a spirit deep, and crystal-clear;
Calmly beneath her earnest face it lies,
Free without boldness, meek without a fear, …
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Jeffries Wyman Friendship
The wisest man could ask no more of Fate
Than to be simple, modest, manly, true,
Safe from the Many, honored by the Few; …
Joseph Winlock Friendship
Shy soul and stalwart, man of patient will
Through years one hair’s-breadth on our Dark to gain,
Who, from the stars he studied not in vain, …
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Kossuth MEMORIAL VERSES
A race of nobles may die out,
A royal line may leave no heir;
Wise Nature sets no guards about …
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L’Envoi (To the Muse). Poem of the War
Whither? Albeit I follow fast,
In all life’s circuit I but find,
Not where thou art, but where thou wast, …
L’Envoi (Whether my heart hath wiser grown or not).
Whether my heart hath wiser grown or not,
In these three years, since I to thee inscribed,
Mine own betrothed, the firstlings of my muse.— …
Letter from Boston.
Dear M——
By way of saving time,
I’ll do this letter up in rhyme,
Whose slim stream through four pages flows …
Lines suggested by the Graves of Two English Soldiers on Concord Battle-Ground
The same good blood that now refills
The dotard Orient’s shrunken veins,
The same whose vigor westward thrills, …
Longing
Of all the myriad moods of mind
That through the soul come thronging,
Which one was e’er so dear, so kind, …
Love Earlier Poem
True Love is but a humble, low-born thing,
And hath its food served up in earthen ware;
It is a thing to walk with, hand in hand, …
Love and Thought
What hath Love with Thought to do?
Still at variance are the two.
Love is sudden, Love is rash, …
Love’s Clock Fancy
‘O Dryad feet,
Be doubly fleet,
Timed to my heart’s expectant beat …
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Mahmood the Image-Breaker
Old events have modern meanings; only that survives
Of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.
Mahmood once, the idol-breaker, spreader of the Faith,
Was at Sumnat tempted sorely, as the legend saith. …
Masaccio
He came to Florence long ago,
And painted here these walls, that shone
For Raphael and for Angelo, …
Memoriæ Positum Poem of the War
Beneath the trees,
My lifelong friends in this dear spot,
Sad now for eyes that see them not, …
Memorial Verses To John Gorham Palfrey MEMORIAL VERSES
There are who triumph in a losing cause,
Who can put on defeat, as ’twere a wreath
Unwithering in the adverse popular breath, …
Memorial Verses To Lamartine MEMORIAL VERSES
I did not praise thee when the crowd,
‘Witched with the moment’s inspiration,
Vexed thy still ether with hosannas loud, …
Midnight Earlier Poem
The moon shines white and silent
On the mist, which, like a tide
Of some enchanted ocean, …
Monna Lisa Sentiment
She gave me all that woman can,
Nor her soul’s nunnery forego,
A confidence that man to man …
My Love Earlier Poem
Not as all other women are
Is she that to my soul is dear;
Her glorious fancies come from far, …
My Portrait Gallery Sentiment
Oft round my hall of portraiture I gaze,
By Memory reared, the artist wise and holy,
From stainless quarries of deep-buried days. …
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New-Year’s Eve, 1850
This is the midnight of the century,—hark!
Through aisle and arch of Godminster have gone
Twelve throbs that tolled the zenith of the dark, ..
Nightwatches Sentiment
While the slow clock, as they were miser’s gold,
Counts and recounts the mornward steps of Time,
The darkness thrills with conscience of each crime …
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ODES:
- An Ode for the Fourth of July, 1876 Poem of the War
Entranced I saw a vision in the cloud
That loitered dreaming in yon sunset sky,
Full of fair shapes, half creatures of the eye, …
- Ode Earlier Poem
In the old days of awe and keen-eyed wonder,
The Poet’s song with blood-warm truth was rife;
He saw the mysteries which circle under …
- Ode (read at the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Fight at Concord Bridge) Poem of the War
Who cometh over the hills,
Her garments with morning sweet,
The dance of a thousand rills …
- Ode (recited at the Harvard Commemoration) Poem of the War
Weak-winged is song,
Nor aims at that clear-ethered height
Whither the brave deed climbs for light: …
- Ode to France
As, flake by flake, the beetling avalanches
Build up their imminent crags of noiseless snow,
Till some chance thrill the loosened ruin launches …
- Ode to Happiness
Spirit, that rarely comest now
And only to contrast my gloom,
Like rainbow-feathered birds that bloom …
- Ode (written for the Celebration of the Introduction of the Cochituate Water, into the City of Boston)
My name is Water: I have sped
Through strange, dark ways, untried before,
By pure desire of friendship led, …
On a Bust of General Grant
Strong, simple, silent are the [steadfast] laws
That sway this universe, of none withstood,
Unconscious of man’s outcries or applause, …
On a Portrait of Dante by Giotto
Can this be thou who, lean and pale,
With such immitigable eye
Didst look upon those writhing souls in bale,
On an Autumn Sketch of H.G. Wild Friendship
Thanks to the artist, ever on my wall
The sunset stays: that hill in glory rolled,
Those trees and clouds in crimson and in gold,
On Board the ’76 Poem of the War
WRITTEN FOR MR. BRYANT’S SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY
NOVEMBER 3, 1884
Our ship lay tumbling in an angry sea,
Her rudder gone, her mainmast o’er the side; …
On burning some Old Letters Sentiment
With what odorous woods and spices
Spared for royal sacrifices,
With what costly gums seld-seen, …
On hearing a Sonata of Beethoven’s played in the Next Room k
Unseen Musician, thou art sure to please,
For those same notes in happier days I heard
Poured by dear hands that long have never stirred …
On planting a Tree at Inveraray Friendship
Who does his duty is a question
Too complex to be solved by me,
But he, I venture the suggestion, …
On Receiving a Copy of Mr. Austin Dobson’s ‘Old World Idylls’ Friendship
At length arrived, your book I take
To read in for the author’s sake;
Too gray for new sensations grown,
On the Capture of Fugitive Slaves near Washington.
Look on who will in apathy, and stifle they who can,
The sympathies, the hopes, the words, that make man truly man;
Let those whose hearts are dungeoned up with interest or with ease …
On the Death of a Friend’s Child
Death never came so nigh to me before,
Nor showed me his mild face: oft had I mused
Of calm and peace and safe forgetfulness, …
On the Death of Charles Turner Torrey MEMORIAL VERSES
Woe worth the hour when it is crime
To plead the poor dumb bondman’s cause,
When all that makes the heart sublime, …
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Palinode
AUTUMN
Still thirteen years: ’tis autumn now
On field and hill, in heart and brain; …
Palinode
DECEMBER
Like some lorn abbey now, the wood
Stands roofless in the bitter air; …
Paolo to Francesca Sentiment
I was with thee in Heaven: I cannot tell
If years or moments, so the sudden bliss,
When first we found, then lost, us in a kiss. …
Pessimoptimism Sentiment
Ye little think what toil it was to build
A world of men imperfect even as this,
Where we conceive of Good by what we miss, …
Phoebe Sentiment
Ere pales in Heaven the morning star,
A bird, the loneliest of its kind,
Hears Dawn’s faint footfall from afar …
Pictures from Appledore
A heap of bare and splintery crags
Tumbled about by lightning and frost,
With rifts and chasms and storm-bleached jags, …
Prison of Cervantes Sentiment
Seat of all woes? Though Nature’s firm decree
The narrowing soul with narrowing dungeon bind,
Yet was his free of motion as the wind, …
Prometheus
One after one the stars have risen and set,
Sparkling upon the hoarfrost on my chain:
The Bear, that prowled all night about the fold …
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Remembered Music Earlier Poem
Thick-rushing, like an ocean vast
Of bisons the far prairie shaking,
The notes crowd heavily and fast …
Rhoecus
God sends his teachers unto every age,
To every clime, and every race of men,
With revelations fitted to their growth …
Rosaline Earlier Poem
Thou look’dst on me all yesternight,
Thine eyes were blue, thy hair was bright
As when we murmured our troth-plight …
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Sayings
In life’s small things be resolute and great
To keep thy muscle trained: know’st thou when Fate
Thy measure takes, or when she’ll say to thee, …
Scherzo Fancy
When the down is on the chin
And the gold-gleam in the hair,
When the birds their sweethearts win …
Science and Poetry Fancy
He who first stretched his nerves of subtile wire
Over the land and through the sea-depths still,
Thought only of the flame-winged messenger …
Seaweed
Not always unimpeded can I pray,
Nor, pitying saint, thine intercession claim;
Too closely clings the burden of the day, …
Self-Study
A presence both by night and day,
That made my life seem just begun,
Yet scarce a presence, rather say …
Serenade Earlier Poem
From the close-shut windows gleams no spark,
The night is chilly, the night is dark,
The poplars shiver, the pine-trees moan, …
She came and went
As a twig trembles, which a bird
Lights on to sing, then leaves unbent,
So is my memory thrilled and stirred;— …
Si descendero in Infernum, ades
O wandering dim on the extremest edge
Of God’s bright providence, whose spirits sigh
Drearily in you, like the winter sedge …
Song Earlier Poem
O moonlight deep and tender,
A year and more agone,
Your mist of golden splendor …
Song (to M.L.) Earlier Poem
A lily thou wast when I saw thee first,
A lily-bud not opened quite,
That hourly grew more pure and white, …
Song Earlier Poem
Violet! sweet violet!
Thine eyes are full of tears;
Are they wet
SONNETS.
- Sonnets
I – TO A.C.L.
II – What were I, Love, if I were stripped of thee,
III – I would not have this perfect love of ours
IV – ‘For this true nobleness I seek in vain,
V – TO THE SPIRIT OF KEATS
VI – Great Truths are portions of the soul of man;
VII – I ask not for those thoughts, that sudden leap
VIII – TO M.W., ON HER BIRTHDAY
IX – My Love, I have no fear that thou shouldst die;
X – I cannot think that thou shouldst pass away,
XI – There never yet was flower fair in vain,
XII – SUB PONDERE CRESCIT
XIII – Beloved, in the noisy city here,
XIV – ON READING WORDSWORTH’S SONNETS IN DEFENCE OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
XV – THE SAME CONTINUED
XVI – THE SAME CONTINUED
XVII – THE SAME CONTINUED
XVIII – THE SAME CONTINUED
XIX – THE SAME CONTINUED
XX – TO M.O.S.
XXI – Our love is not a fading, earthly flower:
XXII – IN ABSENCE
XXIII – WENDELL PHILLIPS
XIV – THE STREET
XXV – I grieve not that ripe Knowledge takes away
XXVI – TO J.R. GIDDINGS
XXVII – I thought our love at full, but I did err;
- On being asked for an Autograph in Venice
Amid these fragments of heroic days
When thought met deed with mutual passion’s leap,
There sits a Fame whose silent trump makes cheap …
- Scottish Border Sentiment
As sinks the sun behind yon alien hills
Whose heather-purple slopes, in glory rolled,
Flush all my thought with momentary gold, …
- To Fanny Alexander Friendship
Unconscious as the sunshine, simply sweet
And generous as that, thou dost not close
Thyself in art, as life were but a rose
St. Michael the Weigher
Stood the tall Archangel weighing
All man’s dreaming, doing, saying,
All the failure and the pain, …
Stanzas on Freedom
Men! whose boast it is that ye
Come of fathers brave and free,
If there breathe on earth a slave, …
Studies for Two Heads
Some sort of heart I know is hers,—
I chanced to feel her pulse one night;
A brain she has that never errs, …
Summer Storm Earlier Poem
Untremulous in the river clear,
Toward the sky’s image, hangs the imaged bridge;
So still the air that I can hear …
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Telepathy Fancy
‘And how could you dream of meeting?’
Nay, how can you ask me, sweet?
All day my pulse had been beating …
Tempora Mutantur Humor and Satire
The world turns mild; democracy, they say,
Rounds the sharp knobs of character away,
And no great harm, unless at grave expense …
The Beggar Earlier Poem
A beggar through the world am I,
From place to place I wander by.
Fill up my pilgrim’s scrip for me, …
THE BIGLOW PAPERS .
The Biglow Papers – First Serie – No. I
The Biglow Papers – First Serie – No. II
The Biglow Papers – First Serie – No. III
The Biglow Papers – First Serie – No. IV
The Biglow Papers – First Serie – No. V
The Biglow Papers – First Serie – No. VI
The Biglow Papers – First Serie – No. VII
The Biglow Papers – First Serie – No. VIII
The Biglow Papers – First Serie – No. IX
The Biglow Papers – Second Series – No. I
The Biglow Papers – Second Series – No. II
The Biglow Papers – Second Series – No. III
The Biglow Papers – Second Series – No. IV
The Biglow Papers – Second Series – No. V
The Biglow Papers – Second Series – No. VI
The Biglow Papers – Second Series – No. VII
The Biglow Papers – Second Series – No. VIII
The Biglow Papers – Second Series – No. IX
The Biglow Papers – Second Series – No. X
The Biglow Papers – Second Series – No. XI
The Black Preacher Sentiment
At Carnac in Brittany, close on the bay,
They show you a church, or rather the gray
Ribs of a dead one, left there to bleach ….
The Birch-Tree.
Rippling through thy branches goes the sunshine,
Among thy leaves that palpitate forever;
Ovid in thee a pining Nymph had prisoned, …
The Boss.
Skilled to pull wires, he baffles Nature’s hope,
Who sure intended him to stretch a rope.
The Brakes. Sentiment
What countless years and wealth of brain were spent
To bring us hither from our caves and huts,
And trace through pathless wilds the deep-worn ruts …
The Broken Tryst. Sentiment
Walking alone where we walked together,
When June was breezy and blue,
I watch in the gray autumnal weather …
The Captive.
It was past the hour of trysting,
But she lingered for him still;
Like a child, the eager streamlet …
The Cathedral. Poem of the War
Far through the memory shines a happy day,
Cloudless of care, down-shod to every sense,
And simply perfect from its own resource, …
The Changeling
I had a little daughter,
And she was given to me
To lead me gently backward …
The Courtin
God makes sech nights, all white an’ still
Fur ‘z you can look or listen,
Moonshine an’ snow on field an’ hill, …
The Dancing Bear Sentiment
Far over Elf-land poets stretch their sway,
And win their dearest crowns beyond the goal
Of their own conscious purpose; they control …
The Darkened Mind
The fire is turning clear and blithely,
Pleasantly whistles the winter wind;
We are about thee, thy friends and kindred, …
The Dead House
Here once my step was quickened,
Here beckoned the opening door,
And welcome thrilled from the threshold …
The Discovery Fancy
I watched a moorland torrent run
Down through the rift itself had made,
Golden as honey in the sun, …
The Eye’s Treasury Sentiment
Gold of the reddening sunset, backward thrown
In largess on my tall paternal trees,
Thou with false hope or fear didst never tease …
The Falcon
In town I hear, scarce wakened yet,
My neighbor’s clock behind the wall
Record the day’s increasing debt, …
The Fatherland Earlier Poem
Where is the true man’s fatherland?
Is it where he by chance is born?
Doth not the yearning spirit scorn …
The Finding of the Lyre
There lay upon the ocean’s shore
What once a tortoise served to cover;
A year and more, with rush and roar, …
The First Snow-Fall
The snow had begun in the gloaming,
And busily all the night
Had been heaping field and highway …
The Flying Dutchman Humor and Satire
Don’t believe in the Flying Dutchman?
I’ve known the fellow for years;
My button I’ve wrenched from his clutch, man: …
The Foot-Path
It mounts athwart the windy hill
Through sallow slopes of upland bare,
And Fancy climbs with foot-fall still …
The Forlorn Earlier Poem
The night is dark, the stinging sleet,
Swept by the bitter gusts of air,
Drives whistling down the lonely street, …
The Fountain Earlier Poem
Into the sunshine,
Full of the light,
Leaping and flashing ….
The Fountain of Youth
‘Tis a woodland enchanted!
By no sadder spirit
Than blackbirds and thrushes, …
The Ghost-Seer
Ye who, passing graves by night,
Glance not to the left or right,
Lest a spirit should arise,
The Growth of the Legend
A legend that grew in the forest’s hush
Slowly as tear-drops gather and gush,
When a word some poet chanced to say ….
The Heritage Earlier Poem
The rich man’s son inherits lands,
And piles of brick and stone, and gold,
And he inherits soft white hands, …
The Landlord
What boot your houses and your lands?
In spite of close-drawn deed and fence,
Like water, twixt your cheated hands, …
The Lesson Fancy
I sat and watched the walls of night
With cracks of sudden lightning glow,
And listened while with clumsy might …
The Maple Sentiment
The Maple puts her corals on in May,
While loitering frosts about the lowlands cling,
To be in tune with what the robins sing, …
The Miner
Down ‘mid the tangled roots of things
That coil about the central fire,
I seek for that which giveth wings …
The Moon Earlier Poem
My soul was like the sea.
Before the moon was made,
Moaning in vague immensity, …
The Nest Sentiment
When oaken woods with buds are pink,
And new-come birds each morning sing,
When fickle May on Summer’s brink
The Nightingale In The Study
‘Come forth!’ my catbird calls to me,
‘And hear me sing a cavatina
That, in this old familiar tree, …
The Nobler Lover
If he be a nobler lover, take him!
You in you I seek, and not myself;
Love with men’s what women choose to make him, …
The Nomades
What Nature makes in any mood
To me is warranted for good,
Though long before I learned to see …
The Oak
What gnarlèd stretch, what depth of shade, is his!
There needs no crown to mark the forest’s king;
How in his leaves outshines full summer’s bliss! …
The Optimist Sentiment
Turbid from London’s noise and smoke,
Here I find air and quiet too;
Air filtered through the beech and oak, …
The Origin of Didactic Poetry Humor and Satire
When wise Minerva still was young
And just the least romantic,
Soon after from Jove’s head she flung …
The Parting Of The Ways
Who hath not been a poet? Who hath not,
With life’s new quiver full of wingèd years,
Shot at a venture, and then, following on, …
The Petition Sentiment
Oh, tell me less or tell me more,
Soft eyes with mystery at the core,
That always seem to melt my own …
The Pioneer
What man would live coffined with brick and stone,
Imprisoned from the healing touch of air,
And cramped with selfish landmarks everywhere, …
The Pregnant Comment Fancy
Opening one day a book of mine,
I absent, Hester found a line
Praised with a pencil-mark, and this …
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, …
The Protest Sentiment
I could not bear to see those eyes
On all with wasteful largess shine,
And that delight of welcome rise …
The Recall Sentiment
Come back before the birds are flown,
Before the leaves desert the tree,
And, through the lonely alleys blown,
The Rose: a Ballad Earlier Poem
In his tower sat the poet
Gazing on the roaring sea,
‘Take this rose,’ he sighed, ‘and throw it …
The Search
I went to seek for Christ,
And Nature seemed so fair
That first the woods and fields my youth enticed, …
The Secret Fancy
I have a fancy: how shall I bring it
Home to all mortals wherever they be?
Say it or sing it? Shoe it or wing it, …
The Shepherd of King Admetus
There came a youth upon the earth,
Some thousand years ago,
Whose slender hands were nothing worth, …
The Singing Leaves
‘What fairings will ye that I bring?’
Said the King to his daughters three;
‘For I to Vanity Fair am bound, …
The Sirens Earlier Poem
The sea is lonely, the sea is dreary,
The sea is restless and uneasy;
Thou seekest quiet, thou art weary, …
The Sower
I saw a Sower walking slow
Across the earth, from east to west;
His hair was white as mountain snow, …
The Token
It is a mere wild rosebud,
Quite sallow now, and dry,
Yet there’s something wondrous in it, …
The Unhappy Lot Of Mr. Knott
My worthy friend, A. Gordon Knott,
From business snug withdrawn,
Was much contented with a lot …
The Vision Of Sir Launfal
According to the mythology of the Romancers, the San Greal, or Holy Grail, was the cup out of which Jesus partook of the Last Supper with his disciples. …
The Voyage to Vinland
BIÖRN’S BECKONERS
Now Biörn, the son of Heriulf, had ill days
Because the heart within him seethed with blood …
The Washers of the Shroud Poem of the War
OCTOBER, 1861
Along a river-side, I know not where,
I walked one night in mystery of dream;
A chill creeps curdling yet beneath my hair, …
The Wind-Harp
I treasure in secret some long, fine hair
Of tenderest brown, but so inwardly golden
I half used to fancy the sunshine there, …
Threnodia Earlier Poem
Gone, gone from us! and shall we see
Those sibyl-leaves of destiny,
Those calm eyes, nevermore? …
To——
We, too, have autumns, when our leaves
Drop loosely through the dampened air,
When all our good seems bound in sheaves, ….
To a Friend Friendship
True as the sun’s own work, but more refined,
It tells of love behind the artist’s eye,
Of sweet companionships with earth and sky,
To a Lady playing on the Cithern Sentiment
So dreamy-soft the notes, so far away
They seem to fall, the horns of Oberon
Blow their faint Hunt’s-up from the good-time gone; …
To a Pine-Tree
Far up on Katahdin thou towerest,
Purple-blue with the distance and vast;
Like a cloud o’er the lowlands thou lowerest, …
To C.F. Bradford Friendship
The pipe came safe, and welcome too,
As anything must be from you;
A meerschaum pure, ‘twould float as light …
To Charles Eliot Norton
The wind is roistering out of doors,
My windows shake and my chimney roars;
My Elmwood chimneys seem crooning to me, …
To H.W.L
I need not praise the sweetness of his song,
Where limpid verse to limpid verse succeeds
Smooth as our Charles, when, fearing lest he wrong …
To Holmes Friendship
Dear Wendell, why need count the years
Since first your genius made me thrill,
If what moved then to smiles or tears, …
To Miss D.T. Friendship
As, cleansed of Tiber’s and Oblivion’s slime,
Glow Farnesina’s vaults with shapes again
That dreamed some exiled artist from his pain
To Mr. John Bartlett
WHO HAD SENT ME A SEVEN-POUND TROUT
Fit for an Abbot of Theleme,
For the whole Cardinals’ College, or
The Pope himself to see in dream …
To Perdita, Singing Earlier Poem
Thy voice is like a fountain,
Leaping up in clear moonshine;
Silver, silver, ever mounting, …
To the Dandelion
Dear common flower, that grow’st beside the way,
Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold,
First pledge of blithesome May, …
To the Future
O Land of Promise! from what Pisgah’s height
Can I behold thy stretch of peaceful bowers,
Thy golden harvests flowing out of sight, …
To the Memory of Hood MEMORIAL VERSES
Another star ‘neath Time’s horizon dropped,
To gleam o’er unknown lands and seas;
Another heart that beat for freedom stopped,— …
To the Past
Wondrous and awful are thy silent halls,
O kingdom of the past!
There lie the bygone ages in their palls, …
To W.L. Garrison MEMORIAL VERSES
In a small chamber, friendless and unseen,
Toiled o’er his types one poor, unlearned young man;
The place was dark, unfurnitured, and mean; …
To Whittier Friendship
New England’s poet, rich in love as years,
Her hills and valleys praise thee, her swift brooks
Dance in thy verse; to her grave sylvan nooks
Trial
Whether the idle prisoner through his grate
Watches the waving of the grass-tuft small,
Which, having colonized its rift i’ th’ wall, …
Turner’s Old Téméraire
Thou wast the fairest of all man-made things;
The breath of heaven bore up thy cloudy wings,
And, patient in their triple rank, …
Two Scenes from the Life of Blondel Poem of the War
SCENE I.—Near a castle in Germany.
‘Twere no hard task, perchance, to win
The popular laurel for my song; …
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Under the October Maples Fancy
What mean these banners spread,
These paths with royal red
So gaily carpeted? …
Under the Old Elm Poem of the War
Words pass as wind, but where great deeds were done
A power abides transfused from sire to son:
The boy feels deeper meanings thrill his ear, …
Under the Willows
Frank-hearted hostess of the field and wood,
Gypsy, whose roof is every spreading tree,
June is the pearl of our New England year. …
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Verses, intended to go with a Posset Dish To My Dear Little Goddaughter, 1882
In good old times, which means, you know,
The time men wasted long ago,
And we must blame our brains or mood …
Villa Franca
Wait a little: do we not wait?
Louis Napoleon is not Fate,
Francis Joseph is not Time; …
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What Rabbi Jehosha said
Rabbi Jehosha used to say
That God made angels every day,
Perfect as Michael and the rest …
With a Copy of Aucassin and Nicolete Friendship
Leaves fit to have been poor Juliet’s cradle-rhyme,
With gladness of a heart long quenched in mould
They vibrate still, a nest not yet grown cold
With a Pressed Flower Earlier Poem
This little blossom from afar
Hath come from other lands to thine;
For, once, its white and drooping star …
With a Seashell Fancy
Shell, whose lips, than mine more cold,
Might with Dian’s ear make bold,
Seek my Lady’s; if thou win. …
With an Armchair Friendship
About the oak that framed this chair, of old
The seasons danced their round; delighted wings
Brought music to its boughs; shy woodland things
Without and Within
My coachman, in the moonlight there,
Looks through the side-light of the door;
I hear him with his brethren swear, …
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Yussouf
A stranger came one night to Yussouf’s tent,
Saying, ‘Behold one outcast and in dread,
Against whose life the bow of power is bent, ….
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