Heartsease and Rue

Title: Heartsease and Rue

Author: James Russell Lowell

Release date: June 7, 2022 [eBook #68260] Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United States: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888

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HEARTSEASE AND RUE

BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1888 Copyright, 1888, By JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. All rights reserved. The Riverside Press, Cambridge: Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.

CONTENTS.

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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.

1874.

POSTSCRIPT, 1887.

II. SENTIMENT.

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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.

PALINODE.—DECEMBER.

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.

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III. FANCY.

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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.

IV. HUMOR AND SATIRE.

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FITZ ADAM’S STORY.

[The greater part of this poem was written many years ago as part of a larger one, to be called “The Nooning,” made up of tales in verse, some of them grave, some comic. It gives me a sad pleasure to remember that I was encouraged in this project by my friend the late Arthur Hugh Clough.]

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.

V. EPIGRAMS.

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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.