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Heaven's lamps renew their lustre - James Russell Lowell "Absence"

Fate stuns as with a mace - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

An earthquake's alien omen rumbles - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

Uprooted is our mountain oak - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

Sudden ambush by the whirlwind - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

And drown in music - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

The stiffening uniform of fame - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

Choose the wheat, incurious of the chaff - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

A pillared hermit of the brain - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

In furloughs of divine escapes - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

Self-spun cocoon of prudence wound - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

Velvet courtesy or caution cold - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

That sword of honest anger - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

The eccentric orbit of a jest - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

The paler primrose of a second spring - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

Cloud charged with searching fire - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

Foiled with riddles dark - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

Hard prose by daylight - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

Silence deepened by our echoing feet - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

The gaunt sons of Calvin's iron breed - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

To buckle the winged sandals on - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

To take December by the beard - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

Till all the allotted flax were spun - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

Leave this shifting life of tents - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

Feel the Seeker's noble zest - James Russell Lowell "Agassiz"

Than honey bees garner in dream - James Russell Lowell "Agro-Dolce"

Some vain regrets to bridle - James Russell Lowell "Arcadia Rediviva"

Age fills the cup with serious tea - James Russell Lowell "Arcadia Rediviva"

When the plant of Eden dies - James Russell Lowell "Arcadia Rediviva"

Set our slow old sap aflow - James Russell Lowell "At the Burns Centennial"

Some elf in play passed by - James Russell Lowell "At the Burns Centennial"

Too cold and dry for spiritual small potatoes - James Russell Lowell "At the Burns Centennial"

Through all your various ranks and fates - James Russell Lowell "At the Burns Centennial"

Opens doors to duty - James Russell Lowell "At the Burns Centennial"

Bear zones of tropic passion - James Russell Lowell "At the Burns Centennial"

Unless it smell of sulphur - James Russell Lowell "At the Burns Centennial"

A stirring, impertinent devil of yeast - James Russell Lowell "At the Commencement Dinner, 1866, in Acknowledging a Toast to the Smith Professor"

Asking some stick, like Aaron's, to bud - James Russell Lowell "At the Commencement Dinner, 1866, in Acknowledging a Toast to the Smith Professor"

Eloquence, pathos, or wit in cold blood - James Russell Lowell "At the Commencement Dinner, 1866, in Acknowledging a Toast to the Smith Professor"

The heavy dragoons of the mind - James Russell Lowell "At the Commencement Dinner, 1866, in Acknowledging a Toast to the Smith Professor"

Strike the hard edge of a thought - James Russell Lowell "At the Commencement Dinner, 1866, in Acknowledging a Toast to the Smith Professor"

Enchantment lights Venus's cheek - James Russell Lowell "At the Commencement Dinner, 1866, in Acknowledging a Toast to the Smith Professor"

And profess four strange languages - James Russell Lowell "At the Commencement Dinner, 1866, in Acknowledging a Toast to the Smith Professor"

The impatience of their wings - James Russell Lowell "Auspex"

Across the barren moor - J.R. Lowell "Ballad"

Withered leaves upon the poplars tall - J.R. Lowell "Ballad"

The eaves of the unlighted hall - J.R. Lowell "Ballad"

Veiling with garlands Moloch's bloody stone - James Russell Lowell "Bankside"

Searched by the nightshade's root - James Russell Lowell "The Black Preacher"

As the Devil's sabbath-train whirls by - James Russell Lowell "The Black Preacher"

The printless summer sandals of the moon - James Russell Lowell "Bon Voyage!"

Whose hoofs of flame consume morn's misty threshold - James Russell Lowell "The Brakes"

All this star-poised frame - James Russell Lowell "The Brakes"

To tame wit's feathered heels - James Russell Lowell "The Brakes"

Are not the prey of setting suns - James Russell Lowell "The Cathedral"

Blurred with mist of afterthought - James Russell Lowell "The Cathedral"

And mocks with various echo - James Russell Lowell "The Cathedral"

Inhospitable of eldest time - James Russell Lowell "The Cathedral"

That only by reflection tastes of sun - James Russell Lowell "The Cathedral"

Its dreamy thunder far aloof - James Russell Lowell "The Cathedral"

Who flit and are forgot - James Russell Lowell "The Cathedral"

Such wine as Dante poured - James Russell Lowell "The Cathedral"

Who blew Roland's vain blast - James Russell Lowell "The Cathedral"

With fleeting grace of shade - James Russell Lowell "The Cathedral"

Find patience in familiar paths - James Russell Lowell "The Cathedral"

Spacious circles luminous with mind - James Russell Lowell "The Cathedral"

As if the mind were quenchable - James Russell Lowell "The Cathedral"

The pent chamber of habitual self - James Russell Lowell "The Cathedral"

Nearer to morning's fountains - James Russell Lowell "The Cathedral"

Missed in the commonplace of miracle - James Russell Lowell "The Cathedral"

Days endeared to every Muse - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

The cloudscape of his mind - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

Beset by doubts of every breed - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

Large estates of doubts and snares - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

No rude wind of doctrine - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

Secure as happy yesterdays - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

By veins from Odin filled - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

From haunted earth broke springs of wonder - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

Drumming the Old One's own tattoo - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

Potent a giant's limbs to bind - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

When the Northlights shake their spears - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

Whichever box the truth be stowed in - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

From a solar myth developed - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

Hunted to its primal shoot - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

In cloudy symbols of the weather - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

Baffled with its own omniscience - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

Waked all the echoes of the soul - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

May give us hopes that sweeten Darwin - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

Wipes no dimness from the glass - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

At the veiled Isis in its keep - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"

Control with gossamer threads wide-flown - James Russell Lowell "The Dancing Bear"

At his side a bear immortal - James Russell Lowell "The Dancing Bear"

Then the fire with spices swell - James Russell Lowell "Eleanor Makes Macaroons"

For her completer spell - James Russell Lowell "Eleanor Makes Macaroons"

The lilies of the mind - James Russell Lowell "Endymion"

Among the noon-stilled linden-trees - James Russell Lowell "Endymion"

Vain conceits of airy blandishments - James Russell Lowell "Endymion"

In trances such as poppies give - James Russell Lowell "Endymion"

With silence-sandalled Sleep - James Russell Lowell "Endymion"

Wear the mask of dream - James Russell Lowell "Endymion"

When phantasms could appease - James Russell Lowell "Endymion"

Who rules the shades in banishment - James Russell Lowell "Endymion"

The reckless wind of thought - James Russell Lowell "Endymion"

Masks half its muscle in its skill - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"

Had swung on flattered hinges - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"

In civic duty spend your heat - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"

And wreathe my hearthstone round - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"

The temperate zeal that balances your brain - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"

The comedy of life rehearse - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"

Commune with the untainted brooks - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"

Safe in my fortress stored - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"

The world's soul-squandering ways - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"

My fancied safeguard made my snare - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"

Check the items in the bitter list - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"

Taste the spurn of parting Fortune's heel - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"

When life was its own spur - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"

By soft mirage uplifted - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"

My moorings to the past snap - James Russell Lowell "An Epistle to George William Curtis"

To the deeps of ether takes its flight - James Russell Lowell "The Eye's Treasury"

Record the day's increasing debt - James Russell Lowell "Fact or Fancy?"

From habit past to present fact - James Russell Lowell "Fact or Fancy?"

Keen as an acid for an alkali - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

And had a cabinet behind his eyes - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

Too indolent for gall - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

Through aeons numb - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

Worth a score of dead Boccaccios - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

Dreamed through half my overture - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

Quaint grace in golden filigree - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

Some bottle deep in cobwebbed dust - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

With aptitudes enough for three - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

A relic of the shipwrecked past - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

Scarce like to feed the ogre - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

In Memory's sketchbook caught - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

Bred strange fancies in its embers - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

Some motions of the vagrant kind - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

A torpid shoal of jest and anecdote - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

Whether she send a satyr or a saint - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

Could make profit on a single pin - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

Arrest your very ghost for debt - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

Made the psalms and prophets partners - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

A fund to train young imps - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

Buy our brimstone by the foot - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

Rude-nerved as bears - James Russell Lowell "Fitz Adam's Story"

As fly the irrevocable hours - James Russell Lowell "For a Bell at Cornell University"

To make your lives of sand or granite - James Russell Lowell "For a Bell at Cornell University"

Who wrought in the dark mines of Truth - James Russell Lowell "Franciscus de Verulamio sic Cogitivat"

Who utters it clearest and best - James Russell Lowell "Franciscus de Verulamio sic Cogitivat"

Prove title to your heirship - James Russell Lowell "The Heritage"

Fit rosary for a queen - James Russell Lowell "In a Copy of Omar Khayyam"

Where Doubt's eddies toss and twirl - James Russell Lowell "In a Copy of Omar Khayyam"

Pining for chaplets of laurel - James Russell Lowell "In the Half-Way House"

With our Fate pick a quarrel - James Russell Lowell "In the Half-Way House"

Instead of cheap bay-leaves - James Russell Lowell "In the Half-Way House"

The goose of To-day still is Memory's swan - James Russell Lowell "In the Half-Way House"

Change the old dream for new treasure - James Russell Lowell "In the Half-Way House"

Fames that earth's tin trumpets fill - James Russell Lowell "Joseph Winlock"

Quivered yet with savage hymns to Thor - J.R. Lowell "Merry England" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

Grimed with the smoke of furnaces - J.R. Lowell "Merry England" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

Furnaces that forge with damned art - J.R. Lowell "Merry England" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

Slaves of forge and loom - J.R. Lowell "Merry England" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

Fairest flowers o'er the grave of buried time - J.R. Lowell "Merry England" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

Night-shade's ugly blue and spotted henbane shall grow up - J.R. Lowell "Merry England" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

On their sand basements lean and crack - J.R. Lowell "Merry England" [Graham's Magazine v.XIX no.5, Nov. 1841]

Stainless quarries of deep-buried days - James Russell Lowell "My Portrait Gallery"

The oriole with experienced quest - James Russell Lowell "The Nest: May"

An emerald roof with sculptured eaves - James Russell Lowell "The Nest: May"

Spared for royal sacrifice - James Russell Lowell "On Burning Some Old Letters"

Veins where fire is hid - James Russell Lowell "On Burning Some Old Letters"

Even his shade by Charon ferried - James Russell Lowell "On Planting a Tree at Inverara"

Filtered through the beech and oak - James Russell Lowell "The Optimist"

When wise Minerva still was young - James Russell Lowell "The Origin of Didactic Poetry"

And in each other's foot-prints tread - James Russell Lowell "Out of Doors"

From deep study of brick walls - James Russell Lowell "Out of Doors"

Where Shakspeare buried gold - James Russell Lowell "Out of Doors"

Such hands no charmed witch-hazel hold - James Russell Lowell "Out of Doors"

With one sad color are imbued - James Russell Lowell "Out of Doors"

Whose every atom is self-willed - James Russell Lowell "Pessimoptimism"

Better than a life of caves - James Russell Lowell "Pessimoptimism"

Hears Dawn's faint footfall - James Russell Lowell "Phoebe"

With narrowing prison bind - James Russell Lowell "Prison of Cervantes"

Free of motion as the wind - James Russell Lowell "Prison of Cervantes"

At duty's summons spent - James Russell Lowell "Proposed for a Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument in Boston"

Sunshine strained through amber wine - James Russell Lowell "The Protest"

A glow from deeper skies - James Russell Lowell "The Protest"

From conscious fountains more divine - James Russell Lowell "The Protest"

Through the lonely alleys blown - James Russell Lowell "The Recall"

Brief as a dragon-fly's repose - James Russell Lowell "Scherzo"

Spendthrift Love's false friends - James Russell Lowell "Scherzo"

Stretched his nerves of subtile wire - James Russell Lowell "Science and Poetry"

And gold rings for my hand - James Russell Lowell "The Singing Leaves"

And a gold comb for my head - James Russell Lowell "The Singing Leaves"

Whiter than thistle-down - James Russell Lowell "The Singing Leaves"

Dim shone the golden crown - James Russell Lowell "The Singing Leaves"

The brow of the King swelled crimson - James Russell Lowell "The Singing Leaves"

The trees all kept their counsel - James Russell Lowell "The Singing Leaves"

With a rose's red heart's tide - James Russell Lowell "The Singing Leaves"

The milestones into headstones change - James Russell Lowell "Sixty-Eighth Birthday"

Over orphaned lives a gracious sky - James Russell Lowell "Sonnet: To Fanny Alexander"

But sought the forbidden tryst - James Russell Lowell "Telepathy"

Rounds the sharp knobs of character - James Russell Lowell "Tempora Mutantur"

What needs edge of proof - James Russell Lowell "Tempora Mutantur"

Too soft for honest wrath - James Russell Lowell "Tempora Mutantur"

Twenty sympathize for one that blames - James Russell Lowell "Tempora Mutantur"

With pockets filled for life - James Russell Lowell "Tempora Mutantur"

The fickle wind will break its truce - James Russell Lowell "To a Friend Who Gave Me a Group of Weeds and Grasses, After a Drawing of Durer"

Quiet from the gilded fly that flits - James Russell Lowell "To a Friend Who Gave Me a Group of Weeds and Grasses, After a Drawing of Durer"

That Romeward crawl from Dreamland - James Russell Lowell "To a Lady Playing on the Cithern"

The weed from Lethe wharf - James Russell Lowell "To C. F. Bradford on the Gift of a Meerschaum Pipe"

The vapors bred by Passion - James Russell Lowell "To C. F. Bradford on the Gift of a Meerschaum Pipe"

With reverie's wasteful pittance - James Russell Lowell "To C. F. Bradford on the Gift of a Meerschaum Pipe"

With dust of saints and scholars - James Russell Lowell "To Holmes"

Deep shadows on the grass - James Russell Lowell "To the Dandelion"

The gleaming rushes lean a thousand ways - James Russell Lowell "To the Dandelion"

Calls back the robin's song - James Russell Lowell "To the Dandelion"

Queen whom my tides obey - James Russell Lowell "Under the October Maples"

Each tree invites the sun - James Russell Lowell "Under the October Maples"

Plucked this herb of grace for you - James Russell Lowell "With a Copy of Aucassin and Nicolete"

With no tremor of the pulse - James Russell Lowell "With a Seashell"

Mystic as the opal's blaze - James Russell Lowell "With a Seashell"

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