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Title: The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell

Author: James Lowell

Release Date: August 28, 2004 [EBook #13310]

Language: English

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THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

Cabinet Edition

BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY THE RIVERSIDE PRESS, CAMBRIDGE

M DCCCC II

PUBLISHERS' NOTE

Mr. Lowell, the year before he died, edited a definitive edition of his works, known as the Riverside edition. Subsequently, his literary executor, Mr. C.E. Norton, issued a final posthumous collection, and the Cambridge edition followed, including all the poems in the Riverside edition, and the poems edited by Mr. Norton. The present Cabinet edition contains all the poems in the Cambridge edition. It is made from new plates, and for the convenience of the student the longer poems have their lines numbered, and indexes of titles and first lines are added.

Autumn, 1899.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

EARLIER POEMS.

THRENODIA THE SIRENS IRENÉ SERENADE WITH A PRESSED FLOWER THE BEGGAR MY LOVE SUMMER STORM LOVE TO PERDITA, SINGING THE MOON REMEMBERED MUSIC SONG. TO M.L. ALLEGRA THE FOUNTAIN ODE THE FATHERLAND THE FORLORN MIDNIGHT A PRAYER THE HERITAGE THE ROSE: A BALLAD SONG, 'VIOLET! SWEET VIOLET!' ROSALINE A REQUIEM A PARABLE SONG, 'O MOONLIGHT DEEP AND TENDER'

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 CONCLUDED. XX. TO M.O.S. XXI. 'OUR LOVE IS NOT A FADING, EARTHLY FLOWER' XXII. IN ABSENCE XXIII. WENDELL PHILLIPS XXIV. 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' L'ENVOI

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

  A LEGEND OF BRITTANY
  PROMETHEUS
  THE SHEPHERD OF KING ADMETUS
  THE TOKEN
  AN INCIDENT IN A RAILROAD CAR
  RHOECUS
  THE FALCON
  TRIAL
  A GLANCE BEHIMD THE CURTAIN
  A CHIPPEWA LEGEND
  STANZAS ON FREEDOM
  COLUMBUS
  AN INCIDENT OF THE FIRE AT HAMBURG
  THE SOWER
  HUNGER AND COLD
  THE LANDLORD
  TO A PINE-TREE
  SI DESCENDERO IN INFERNUM, ADES
  TO THE PAST
  TO THE FUTURE
  HEBE
  THE SEARCH
  THE PRESENT CRISIS
  AN INDIAN-SUMMER REVERIE
  THE GROWTH OF THE LEGEND
  A CONTRAST
  EXTREME UNCTION
  THE OAK
  AMBROSE
  ABOVE AND BELOW
  THE CAPTIVE
  THE BIRCH-TREE
  AN INTERVIEW WITH MILES STANDISH
  ON THE CAPTURE OF FUGITIVE SLAVES NEAR WASHINGTON
  TO THE DANDELION
  THE GHOST-SEER
  STUDIES FOR TWO HEADS
  ON A PORTRAIT OF DANTE BY GIOTTO
  ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEND'S CHILD
  EURYDICE
  SHE CAME AND WENT
  THE CHANGELING
  THE PIONEER
  LONGING
  ODE TO FRANCE. February, 1848
  ANTI-APIS
  A PARABLE
  ODE WRITTEN FOR THE CELEBRATION OF THE INTRODUCTION OF THE COCHITUATE
    WATER INTO THE CITY OF BOSTON
  LINES SUGGESTED BY THE GRAVES OF TWO ENGLISH SOLDIERS ON CONCORD
    BATTLE-GROUND
  TO——
  FREEDOM
  BIBLIOLATRES
  BEAVER BROOK

MEMORIAL VERSES.

KOSSUTH TO LAMARTINE. 1848 TO JOHN GORHAM PALFREY TO W.L. GARRISON ON THE DEATH OF CHARLES TURNER TORREY ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF DR. CHANNING TO THE MEMORY OF HOOD

THE VISION OF SIR LAUNFAL
LETTER FROM BOSTON. December, 1846
A FABLE FOR CRITICS
THE UNHAPPY LOT OF MR. KNOTT
FRAGMENTS OF AN UNFINISHED POEM
AN ORIENTAL APOLOGUE
THE BIGLOW PAPERS.

FIRST SERIES.

  NOTICES OF AN INDEPENDENT PRESS
  NOTE TO TITLE-PAGE
  INTRODUCTION
  NO. I. A LETTER FROM MR. EZEKIEL BIGLOW OF JAALAM TO THE HON.
    JOSEPH T. BUCKINGHAM
  NO. II. A LETTER FROM MR. HOSEA BIGLOW TO THE HON. J.T.
    BUCKINGHAM
  NO. III. WHAT MR. ROBINSON THINKS
  NO. IV. REMARKS OF INCREASE D. O'PHACE, ESQ.
  NO. V. THE DEBATE IN THE SENNIT
  NO. VI. THE PIOUS EDITOR'S CREED
  NO. VII. A LETTER FROM A CANDIDATE IN THE PRESIDENCY IN ANSWER
    TO SUTTIN QUESTIONS PROPOSED BY Mr. HOSEA BIGLOW
  NO. VIII. A SECOND LETTER FROM B. SAWIN, ESQ.
  NO. IX. A THIRD LETTER FROM B. SAWIN, ESQ.

SECOND SERIES.

THE COURTIN' NO. I. BIRDOFREDUM SAWIN ESQ., TO MR. HOSEA BIGLOW NO. II. MASON AND SLIDELL: A YANKEE IDYLL JONATHAN TO JOHN NO. III. BIRDOFREDUM SAWIN, ESQ., TO MR. HOSEA BIGLOW NO. IV. A MESSAGE OF JEFF DAVIS IN SECRET SESSION NO. V. SPEECH OF HONOURABLE PRESERVED DOE IN SECRET CAUCUS NO. VI. SUNTHIN' IN THE PASTORAL LINE NO. VII. LATEST VIEWS OF MR. BIGLOW NO. VIII. KETTELOPOTOMACHIA NO. IX. SOME MEMORIALS OF THE LATE REVEREND H. WILBUR NO. X. MR. HOSEA BIGLOW TO THE EDITOR OF THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY NO. XI. MR. HOSEA BIGLOW'S SPEECH IN MARCH MEETING

UNDER THE WILLOWS AND OTHER POEMS.

TO CHARLES ELIOT NORTON UNDER THE WILLOWS DARA THE FIRST SNOW-FALL THE SINGING LEAVES SEAWEED THE FINDING OF THE LYRE NEW-YEAR'S EVE, 1850 FOR AN AUTOGRAPH AL FRESCO MASACCIO WITHOUT AND WITHIN GODMINSTER CHIMES THE PARTING OF THE WAYS ALADDIN AN INVITATION. TO JOHN FRANCIS HEATH THE NOMADES SELF-STUDY PICTURES FROM APPLEDORE THE WIND-HARP AUF WIEDERSEHEN PALINODE