The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell ...Ticknor and Fields, 1866 |
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... speaking of metres ; some poems have welled From those rare depths of soul that have ne'er been excelled ; They're not epics , but that doesn't matter a pin , In creating , the only hard thing's to begin ; A grass - blade ' s no easier ...
... speaking of metres ; some poems have welled From those rare depths of soul that have ne'er been excelled ; They're not epics , but that doesn't matter a pin , In creating , the only hard thing's to begin ; A grass - blade ' s no easier ...
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... Kingdom Come Is a sort of a , kind of a , species of Hum , Of which , as it were , so to speak , not a crumb Would be left , if we didn't keep carefully mum , And , to make a clean breast , that ' A FABLE FOR CRITICS . 51.
... Kingdom Come Is a sort of a , kind of a , species of Hum , Of which , as it were , so to speak , not a crumb Would be left , if we didn't keep carefully mum , And , to make a clean breast , that ' A FABLE FOR CRITICS . 51.
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... And I honor the man who is willing to sink Half his present repute for the freedom to think , And , when he has thought , be his cause strong or weak , Will risk t'other half for the freedom to speak , 62 A FABLE FOR CRITICS .
... And I honor the man who is willing to sink Half his present repute for the freedom to think , And , when he has thought , be his cause strong or weak , Will risk t'other half for the freedom to speak , 62 A FABLE FOR CRITICS .
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James Russell Lowell. Will risk t'other half for the freedom to speak , Caring naught for what vengeance the mob has in store , Let that mob be the upper ten thousand or lower . " There are truths you Americans need to be told , And it ...
James Russell Lowell. Will risk t'other half for the freedom to speak , Caring naught for what vengeance the mob has in store , Let that mob be the upper ten thousand or lower . " There are truths you Americans need to be told , And it ...
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... speak of our papers , our State legislatures , And other such trials for sensitive natures , Just look for a moment at Congress , -appalled , My fancy shrinks back from the phantom it called ; Why , there's scarcely a member unworthy to ...
... speak of our papers , our State legislatures , And other such trials for sensitive natures , Just look for a moment at Congress , -appalled , My fancy shrinks back from the phantom it called ; Why , there's scarcely a member unworthy to ...
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