Heartsease and Rue

About this eBook

Author

James Russell Lowell

Original Publication

United States: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888

Credits

Charlene Taylor, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

Subject

American poetry -- 19th century

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 68260

Release Date

June 7, 2022

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.HEARTSEASE AND RUE
2. 2.CONTENTS.
3. 3.POEMS. — AGASSIZ. — I. 1. — 2. — 3. — 4. — II. 1. — 2. — III. 1. — 2. — 3. — 4. — 5. — 6. — IV. 1. — 2. — V. 1. — 2. — VI. 1. — 2. — TO HOLMES ON HIS SEVENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY. — IN A COPY OF OMAR KHAYYÁM. — ON RECEIVING A COPY OF MR. AUSTIN DOBSON’S “OLD WORLD IDYLLS.” — I. — II. — TO C. F. BRADFORD ON THE GIFT OF A MEERSCHAUM PIPE. — BANKSIDE. (HOME OF EDMUND QUINCY.) Dedham, May 21, 1877. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — JOSEPH WINLOCK. Died June 11, 1875. — SONNET. TO FANNY ALEXANDER. — JEFFRIES WYMAN. Died September 4, 1874. — TO A FRIEND WHO GAVE ME A GROUP OF WEEDS AND GRASSES, AFTER A DRAWING OF DÜRER. — WITH AN ARMCHAIR. — E. G. de R. — BON VOYAGE! — TO WHITTIER ON HIS SEVENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY. — ON AN AUTUMN SKETCH OF H. G. WILD. — TO MISS D. T. ON HER GIVING ME A DRAWING OF LITTLE STREET ARABS. — WITH A COPY OF AUCASSIN AND NICOLETE. — ON PLANTING A TREE AT INVERARA. — AN EPISTLE TO GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS.
4. 4.II. SENTIMENT. — ENDYMION. A MYSTICAL COMMENT ON TITIAN’S “SACRED AND PROFANE LOVE.” — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — THE BLACK PREACHER. A BRETON LEGEND. — ARCADIA REDIVIVA. — THE NEST. — MAY. — A YOUTHFUL EXPERIMENT IN ENGLISH HEXAMETERS. IMPRESSIONS OF HOMER. — BIRTHDAY VERSES. WRITTEN IN A CHILD’S ALBUM. — ESTRANGEMENT. — PHŒBE. — DAS EWIG-WEIBLICHE. — THE RECALL. — ABSENCE. — MONNA LISA. — THE OPTIMIST. — ON BURNING SOME OLD LETTERS. — THE PROTEST. — THE PETITION. — FACT OR FANCY? — AGRO-DOLCE. — THE BROKEN TRYST. — CASA SIN ALMA. RECUERDO DE MADRID. — A CHRISTMAS CAROL. FOR THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL CHILDREN OF THE CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES. — MY PORTRAIT GALLERY. — PAOLO TO FRANCESCA. — SONNET. Scottish Border. — SONNET. On being asked for an Autograph in Venice. — THE DANCING BEAR. — THE MAPLE. — NIGHTWATCHES. — DEATH OF QUEEN MERCEDES. — PRISON OF CERVANTES. — TO A LADY PLAYING ON THE CITHERN. — THE EYE’S TREASURY. — PESSIMOPTIMISM. — THE BRAKES. — A FOREBODING.
5. 5.III. FANCY. — UNDER THE OCTOBER MAPLES. — LOVE’S CLOCK. A PASTORAL. — DAPHNIS waiting . — CHLOE. — DAPHNIS. — BOTH. — ELEANOR MAKES MACAROONS. — TELEPATHY. — SCHERZO. — “FRANCISCUS DE VERULAMIO SIC COGITAVIT.” — AUSPEX. — THE PREGNANT COMMENT. — THE LESSON. — SCIENCE AND POETRY. — A NEW YEAR’S GREETING. — THE DISCOVERY. — WITH A SEASHELL. — THE SECRET.
6. 6.IV. HUMOR AND SATIRE. — FITZ ADAM’S STORY. — THE ORIGIN OF DIDACTIC POETRY. — THE FLYING DUTCHMAN. — CREDIDIMUS JOVEM REGNARE. — TEMPORA MUTANTUR. — IN THE HALF-WAY HOUSE. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — AT THE BURNS CENTENNIAL. JANUARY, 1859. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII. — IX. — X. — XI. — XII. — XIII. — XIV. — XV. — XVI. — XVII. — XVIII. — XIX. — XX. — XXI. — XXII. — XXIII. — XXIV. — IN AN ALBUM. — AT THE COMMENCEMENT DINNER, 1866, IN ACKNOWLEDGING A TOAST TO THE SMITH PROFESSOR. — A PARABLE.
7. 7.V. EPIGRAMS. — SAYINGS. — 1. — 2. — 3. — 4. — INSCRIPTIONS. — FOR A BELL AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY. — FOR A MEMORIAL WINDOW TO SIR WALTER RALEIGH, SET UP IN ST. MARGARET’S, WESTMINSTER, BY AMERICAN CONTRIBUTORS. — PROPOSED FOR A SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' MONUMENT IN BOSTON. — A MISCONCEPTION. — THE BOSS. — SUN-WORSHIP. — CHANGED PERSPECTIVE. — WITH A PAIR OF GLOVES LOST IN A WAGER. — SIXTY-EIGHTH BIRTHDAY.

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