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The writings of James Russell Lowell

in ten volumes

Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891)

WITH A PRESSED FLOWER

[II. What were I, Love, if I were stripped of thee]

[III. I would not have this perfect love of ours]

[IV. “For this true nobleness I seek in vain]

V. TO THE SPIRIT OF KEATS.

[VI. Great Truths are portions of the soul of man]

[VII. I ask not for those thoughts, that sudden leap]

VIII. TO M. W., ON HER BIRTHDAY.

[IX. My Love, I have no fear that thou shouldst die]

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[X. I cannot think that thou shouldst pass away]

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[XI. There never yet was flower fair in vain]

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XII. SUB PONDERE CRESCIT.

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[XIII. Beloved, in the noisy city here]

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XIV. ON READING WORDSWORTH'S SONNETS IN DEFENCE OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.

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XV. THE SAME CONTINUED.

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XVI. THE SAME CONTINUED.

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XVII. THE SAME CONTINUED.

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XVIII. THE SAME CONTINUED.

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XIX. THE SAME CONCLUDED.

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XX. TO M. O. S.

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[XXI. Our love is not a fading, earthly flower]

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XXII. IN ABSENCE.

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XXIII. WENDELL PHILLIPS.

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XXIV. THE STREET.

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[XXV. I grieve not that ripe Knowledge takes away]

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XXVI. TO J. R. GIDDINGS.

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[XXVII. I thought our love at full, but I did err]

L'ENVOI

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS

MEMORIAL VERSES

THE VISION OF SIR LAUNFAL

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SIXTY-EIGHTH BIRTHDAY

As life runs on, the road grows strange
With faces new, and near the end
The milestones into headstones change,
'Neath every one a friend.