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Uncollected Poems of James Russell Lowell

Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891)

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TEXT OF THE POEMS
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Periodical and pamphlet poems
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COLLEGE VERSE
  
IN IMITATION OF BURNS
  
DRAMATIC SKETCH
  
THE SERENADE
  
WHAT IS IT?
  
SARATOGA LAKE
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SCENES FROM AN UNPUBLISHED DRAMA
  
SKILLYGOLIANA. No. II
  
SKILLYGOLIANA. No. III
  
A DEAD LETTER
  
EXTRACTS FROM A “HASTY PUDDING POEM”
  
TO MOUNT WASHINGTON
  
SONG
  
TO THE CLASS OF '38, BY THEIR OSTRACIZED POET, (SO CALLED,) J. R. L.
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CLASS POEM
  
PREFACE
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I
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II
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III
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IV
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V
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VI
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VII
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VIII
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IX
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X
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XI
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XII
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XIII
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XIV
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XV
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XVI
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XVII
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XVIII
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XIX
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XX
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XXI
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XXII
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XXIII
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XXIV
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XXV
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XXVI
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XXVII
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XXVIII
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XXIX
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XXX
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XXXI
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XXXII
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XXXIII
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XXXIV
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XXXV
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XXXVI
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XXXVII
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XXXVIII
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XXXIX
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XL
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XLI
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XLII
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XLIII
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XLIV

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XXIII

Some thirst of vengeance slakes this side the tomb,
And ceases with the mournful bell's long toll
That calls the victim to his cell of gloom—
But we—oh deepest bloodspot on the scroll
Of God's recording angel! we would doom
Alike the Redman's body and his soul:
We sell him first our whiskey, then the Word,
Then punish Gospel-breaking with the sword!
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