Poems of James Russell Lowell

Biglow Papers

Edited With an Introduction, Notes, Glossary, and Copious Index

By HOMER WILBUR, A.M.,

PASTOR OF THE FIRST CHURCH IN JAALAM, AND (PROSPECTIVE)
MEMBER OF MANY LITERARY, LEARNED AND SCIENTIFIC
SOCIETIES,
(for which see page 372.)

The ploughman’s whistle, or the trivial flute,
Finds more respect than great Apollo’s lute.
      Quarles’s Emblems, b. ii. e. 8.
Margaritas, munde porcine, calcâsti: en, siliquas accipe.
      Jac. Car. Fil. ad Pub. Leg. § 1.