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Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell

by James Russell Lowell

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  1. 1Under the Willows and Other Poems
  2. 2V — Epigrams
  3. 3The Sirens
  4. 4Irené
  5. 5Serenade
  6. 6With a Pressed Flower
  7. 7The Beggar
  8. 8My Love
  9. 9Summer Storm
  10. 10Love
  11. 11To Perdita, Singing
  12. 12The Moon
  13. 13Remembered Music
  14. 14Song to M.L.
  15. 15Allegra
  16. 16The Fountain
  17. 17Ode
  18. 18The Fatherland
  19. 19The Forlorn
  20. 20Midnight
  21. 21A Prayer
  22. 22The Heritage
  23. 23The Rose: A Ballad
  24. 24Song
  25. 25Rosaline
  26. 26A Requiem
  27. 27A Parable
  28. 28Song
  29. 29Sonnets
  30. 30L’Envoi
  31. 31Miscellaneous Poems
  32. 32Part Second
  33. 33Prometheus
  34. 34The Shepherd of King Admetus
  35. 35The Token
  36. 36An Incident in a Railroad Car
  37. 37Rhoecus
  38. 38The Falcon
  39. 39Trial
  40. 40A Glance Behind the Curtain
  41. 41A Chippewa Legend
  42. 42Stanzas on Freedom
  43. 43Columbus
  44. 44An Incident of the Fire at Hamburg
  45. 45The Sower
  46. 46Hunger and Cold
  47. 47The Landlord
  48. 48To a Pine-Tree
  49. 49Si Descendero in Infernum, Ades
  50. 50To the Past
  51. 51To the Future
  52. 52Hebe
  53. 53The Search
  54. 54The Present Crisis
  55. 55An Indian-Summer Reverie
  56. 56The Growth of the Legend
  57. 57A Contrast
  58. 58Extreme Unction
  59. 59The Oak
  60. 60Ambrose
  61. 61Above and Below
  62. 62The Captive
  63. 63The Birch-Tree
  64. 64An Interview With Miles Standish
  65. 65On the Capture of Fugitive Slaves Near Washington
  66. 66To the Dandelion
  67. 67The Ghost-Seer
  68. 68Studies for Two Heads
  69. 69On a Portrait of Dante by Giotto
  70. 70On the Death of a Friend’s Child
  71. 71Eurydice
  72. 72She Came and Went
  73. 73The Changeling
  74. 74The Pioneer
  75. 75Longing
  76. 76Ode to France
  77. 77Anti-Apis
  78. 78A Parable
  79. 79Ode
  80. 80Lines
  81. 81To ——
  82. 82Freedom
  83. 83Bibliolatres
  84. 84Beaver Brook
  85. 85Memorial Verses
  86. 86To Lamartine
  87. 87To John Gorham Palfrey
  88. 88To W.L. Garrison
  89. 89On the Death of Charles Turner Torrey
  90. 90Elegy on the Death of Dr. Channing
  91. 91To the Memory of Hood
  92. 92The Vision of Sir Launfal
  93. 93Prelude to Part Second
  94. 94Letter From Boston
  95. 95A Preliminary Note to the Second Edition
  96. 96A Fable for Critics
  97. 97The Unhappy Lot of Mr. Knott
  98. 98Fragments of an Unfinished Poem
  99. 99An Oriental Apologue
  100. 100The Biglow Papers
  101. 101Proemium
  102. 102Meliboeus-Hipponax
  103. 103The Two Gunners
  104. 104Leaving the Matter Open
  105. 105*** to the Indulgent Reader
  106. 106The Biglow Papers
  107. 107No. II — A Letter
  108. 108No. III — What Mr. Robinson Thinks
  109. 109No. IV — Remarks of Increase D. O’Phace, Esquire, at an Extrumpery…
  110. 110No. V — The Debate in the Sennit
  111. 111H.W.] — No. VI
  112. 112No. VII — A Letter
  113. 113No. VIII — A Second Letter From B. Sawin, Esq
  114. 114No. IX — A Third Letter From B. Sawin, Esq
  115. 115The
  116. 116The Courtin’
  117. 117The Biglow Papers
  118. 118No. II — Mason and Slidell: A Yankee Idyll
  119. 119No. III — Birdofredum Sawin, Esq., to Mr. Hosea Biglow
  120. 120No. IV — A Message of Jeff Davis in Secret Session
  121. 121No. V — Speech of Honourable Preserved Doe in Secret Caucus
  122. 122No. VI — Sunthin’ in the Pastoral Line
  123. 123No. VII — Latest Views of Mr. Biglow
  124. 124No. VIII — Kettelopotomachia
  125. 125No. IX
  126. 126No. X — Mr. Hosea Biglow to the Editor of the Atlantic Monthly
  127. 127No. XI — Mr. Hosea Biglow’s Speech in March Meeting
  128. 128Under the Willows and Other Poems
  129. 129Under the Willows
  130. 130Dara
  131. 131The First Snow-Fall
  132. 132The Singing Leaves
  133. 133Seaweed
  134. 134The Finding of the Lyre
  135. 135New-Year’s Eve, 1850
  136. 136For an Autograph
  137. 137Al Fresco
  138. 138Masaccio in the Brancacci Chapel
  139. 139Without and Within
  140. 140The Parting of the Ways
  141. 141The Parting of the Ways
  142. 142Aladdin
  143. 143An Invitation
  144. 144The Nomades
  145. 145Self-Study
  146. 146Pictures From Appledore
  147. 147The Wind-Harp
  148. 148Auf Wiedersehen
  149. 149Palinode
  150. 150After the Burial
  151. 151The Dead House
  152. 152A Mood
  153. 153The Voyage to Vinland
  154. 154Mahmood the Image-Breaker
  155. 155Invita Minerva
  156. 156The Fountain of Youth
  157. 157Yussouf
  158. 158The Darkened Mind
  159. 159What Rabbi Jehosha Said
  160. 160All-Saints
  161. 161A Winter-Evening Hymn to My Fire
  162. 162Fancy’s Casuistry
  163. 163To Mr. John Bartlett
  164. 164Ode to Happiness
  165. 165Villa Franca
  166. 166The Miner
  167. 167Gold Egg: A Dream-Fantasy
  168. 168A Familiar Epistle to a Friend
  169. 169An Ember Picture
  170. 170To H.W.L. on His Birthday, 27th February, 1867
  171. 171The Nightingale in the Study
  172. 172In the Twilight
  173. 173The Foot-Path
  174. 174Poems of the War
  175. 175Two Scenes From the Life of Blondel
  176. 176Memoriae Positum
  177. 177On Board the ’76
  178. 178Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration
  179. 179L’Envoi
  180. 180The Cathedral
  181. 181Three Memorial Poems
  182. 182Ode
  183. 183Under the Old Elm
  184. 184An Ode for the Fourth of July, 1876
  185. 185Heartsease and Rue — I — Friendship
  186. 186To Holmes on His Seventy-Fifth Birthday
  187. 187In a Copy of Omar Khayyám
  188. 188On Receiving a Copy of Mr. Austin Dobson’s ‘Old World Idylls’
  189. 189To C.F. Bradford on the Gift of a Meerschaum Pipe
  190. 190Bankside
  191. 191Joseph Winlock
  192. 192Sonnet
  193. 193Jeffries Wyman
  194. 194To a Friend
  195. 195With an Armchair
  196. 196E.G. de R.
  197. 197Bon Voyage
  198. 198To Whittier on His Seventy-Fifth Birthday
  199. 199On an Autumn Sketch of H.G. Wild
  200. 200To Miss D.T. on Her Giving Me a Drawing of Little Street Arabs
  201. 201With a Copy of Aucassin and Nicolete
  202. 202On Planting a Tree at Inveraray
  203. 203An Epistle to George William Curtis
  204. 204Postscript, 1887
  205. 205II — Sentiment
  206. 206The Black Preacher
  207. 207Arcadia Rediviva
  208. 208The Nest
  209. 209Palinode — December
  210. 210A Youthful Experiment in English Hexameters
  211. 211Birthday Verses
  212. 212Estrangement
  213. 213Phœbe
  214. 214Das Ewig-Weibliche
  215. 215The Recall
  216. 216Absence
  217. 217Monna Lisa
  218. 218The Optimist
  219. 219On Burning Some Old Letters
  220. 220The Protest
  221. 221The Petition
  222. 222Fact or Fancy?
  223. 223Agro-Dolce
  224. 224The Broken Tryst
  225. 225Casa Sin Alma
  226. 226A Christmas Carol for the Sunday-School Children of the Church of t…
  227. 227My Portrait Gallery
  228. 228Paolo to Francesca
  229. 229Sonnet
  230. 230Sonnet on Being Asked for an Autograph in Venice
  231. 231The Dancing Bear
  232. 232The Maple
  233. 233Nightwatches
  234. 234Death of Queen Mercedes
  235. 235Prison of Cervantes
  236. 236To a Lady Playing on the Cithern
  237. 237The Eye’s Treasury
  238. 238Pessimoptimism
  239. 239The Brakes
  240. 240A Foreboding
  241. 241III | Fancy
  242. 242Love’s Clock
  243. 243Eleanor Makes Macaroons
  244. 244Telepathy
  245. 245Scherzo
  246. 246Auspex
  247. 247The Pregnant Comment
  248. 248The Lesson
  249. 249Science and Poetry
  250. 250A New Year’s Greeting
  251. 251The Discovery
  252. 252With a Seashell
  253. 253The Secret
  254. 254IV | Humor and Satire
  255. 255The Origin of Didactic Poetry
  256. 256The Flying Dutchman
  257. 257Credidimus Jovem Regnare
  258. 258Tempora Mutantur
  259. 259In the Half-Way House
  260. 260At the Burns Centennial
  261. 261In an Album
  262. 262At the Commencement Dinner, 1866
  263. 263A Parable
  264. 264V | Epigrams
  265. 265Inscriptions for a Bell at Cornell University
  266. 266For a Memorial Window to Sir Walter Raleigh, Set Up in St. Margaret…
  267. 267Proposed for a Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument in Boston
  268. 268A Misconception
  269. 269The Boss · Sun-Worship · Changed Perspective — With a Pair of Glove…
  270. 270Sixty-Eighth Birthday · International Copyright — Last Poems
  271. 271Turner’s Old Téméraire
  272. 272St. Michael the Weigher
  273. 273A Valentine
  274. 274An April Birthday — At Sea
  275. 275Love and Thought
  276. 276The Nobler Lover
  277. 277On Hearing a Sonata of Beethoven’s Played in the Next Room
  278. 278Verses
  279. 279On a Bust of General Grant
  280. 280Appendix
  281. 281II — Glossary to the Biglow Papers
  282. 282III — Index to Biglow Papers

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