Synopses & Reviews
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL - COnTAINING TI-IE VISION OF SIR LAUNFAL, A FABLE FOR CRITES THE BIGLOW PAPERS, UNDER THE WILLOWS AND OTHER POEMS -CONTENTS - EARLIER PO EMS. PAQE Threnodia . . . . . . 1 The Sireq . . . . . . 2 Iren6. . . . . . . . 4 Serenade . . . . . 6 With a Fressid lower . . . 6 TheBeggar . . . . . . 7 My Love. . . . . . . 7 Summer Storm . . . . . 8 Love . . . . . . . . 10 To Perdita, Singing . . . . 11 TheMoon . . . . . . 13 Remembered Music. . . . 13 Song, To M. L. . . . . . 13 Allegre . . . . . . . 14 qj. The Fountain . . . . . 15 O d e . . . . . . . . 15 The Fatherland . . . . . 19 The Forlorn . . . . . . 19 Midnight. . . . . . . 20 A Prayer. . . . . . . 21 The Heritage . . . 21 The Rose A ad . . . 22 Song, Violet l sweet violet . 23 Roseline . . . . . . . 23 ARequiem . . . . . . 24 A Parele . . . . . . 25 Song, 0, moonlight deep and tender . . . . . . 26 SONNETS. z p A . C . L . . . . . 20 11. Whet were I, Love . 26 111. I would not 9 this perfect love . . . 27 IV. For this true nobleness . . . .. 27 v. To the i r i t Ko fe ats . 27 vr. Great Truths are portions of the soul . 28 VII. I ask nof for those thoughts . 28 vnr. To M. W., on her birth day . . . . . 28 PAQE IX. My Fove, I have no fear 29 X. I caYot h that thou . . . . . 29 XI. There ever yet waa flower . . . . i9 XII. Fub Pondere Crescit . 30 XIII. Beloved, the noisy city here . . . . 30 XIV-xrx. On reading Wordsworths Sonnets in Defence of Capital Punishment . . 30-32 xx. To M. 0. S. . . . . 32 XXI. Ourlove is not a fading, earthly flower . . 33 XXII. In Abonce . . . . 33 XXIII. Wendell Phillips . . 33 xx v. T he Street . . . . . 34 xxv. I grieve not, that ripe Knowledge . . . 34 xxv. To J. R. Giddincs . . 34MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. A Legend of Brittany . . . Prometheus . The Shepherd of Kidg Admitus The Token . . . An Incident in a ailrosdca Rhoecus . . . . . . . The Falcon . . . . . . Trial . . . . ., A Glance behind the Curtain . A Chippewa Legend . . . Stanzas on Freedom . . . Colurnbus . An Incident of tie kiri it Hamburg . . . . . . The Sower . . . . Hunger and bold . . . . k CONTENTS I TheLandlord . . . . . To a Pine-Tree . . . . . Si Descender0 in Infernum, Ades . . . . . . . TToo tthhee Fpuatsutr. e . . . . . . . . . . THhebees e . arc . h . . . . . . . . . . . . The Present Crisis . . . . An Indian-Summer Reverie . The Growth of the Legend . . AContrast . . . . . . Extreme Unction . . . . The Oak . . . . . . . AAmbobvreo saen d . Below . . . . . . . . . Thecaptive . . . . . . The Birch-Tree . An Interview with M I Sbndish . . . . . . On the Capture of Fugitive Slavea near Washington . . TTohe t hGeh Dosatn-Sdeeleiro n . . . . . . . . . Studies for two Heads . . . On a Portrait of Danta by Giotto . . . . . . . On the Death of a Friends Child . . . . . . . Eurydice . . . . . She Cameani went . . . TThhee CPihoannegeerl i . ng . . . . . . . . . . Longing . . . . . . . Ode to France. February, 1848 Anti-Apis . . . . . . AParable . . . . . . Ode written for the Celebration of the Introduction of the Cochituate Water into the City of Boston . . . . Lines suggested by the Gravea of two English Soldiers on Concord Battle-Ground . ., To- We, too, haveautumns Freedom . . . . . . . Bibliolatres . . . . . . Beaver Brook . . . . . MEMORIAL VERSES. KTOos Lsaumtha r . ti ne . . i848 . . . . . . To John G. Palfrey . . . . To W. L. Garrison . . . On the Death of C. T. l orrey . Elegy on the Death ofDr. Charming. . . To the Memory if H O O . . TRX V ISION O F SIB LAUNPA . L . A FABLE FO B CRITICS . . . l THE B ICLOW P APERS f, ir st Series...