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by James Russell Lowell

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American Literature – American Poetry – James Russell Lowell
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To Fanny Alexander

Unconscious as the sunshine, simply sweet
And generous as that, thou dost not clos
Thyself in art, as life were but a rose
To rumple bee-like with luxurious feet;
Thy higher mind therein finds sure retreat,
But not from care of common hopes and woes;
Thee the dark chamber, thee the unfriended, knows,
Although no babbling crowds thy praise repeat:
Consummate artist, who life’s landscape bleak
Hast brimmed with sun to many a clouded eye,
Touched to a brighter hue the beggar’s cheek,
Hung over orphaned lives a gracious sky,
And traced for eyes, that else would vainly seek,
Fair pictures of an angel drawing nigh!

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American Literature – American Poetry – James Russell Lowell

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