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James Russell Lowell

1819–1891

James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) was an American poet, critic, and diplomat from Cambridge, Massachusetts, who edited the Atlantic Monthly and later served as U.S. minister to Spain and Britain.

A member of the ‘Fireside Poets’, he wrote lyric and narrative verse — most famously ‘The Vision of Sir Launfal’ — alongside satirical and abolitionist poetry that engaged directly with the politics of his day.

Major Works (1)

  1. The Vision of Sir Launfal — Narrative poem, 1848

Poems (358)

  1. Sonnet
  2. Hakon's Lay
  3. Out Of Doors
  4. A Reverie
  5. In Sadness
  6. Farewell
  7. A Dirge
  8. Pressed In An Old Copy Of Spenser
  9. New Year's Eve, 1844
  10. A Mystical Ballad
  11. The Serenade
  12. Song (1)
  13. The Departed
  14. The Bobolink
  15. Forgetfulness
  16. Song (2)
  17. The Poet
  18. Flowers
  19. The Lover
  20. Isabel
  21. Music
  22. Song (3)
  23. Ianthe
  24. Love's Altar
  25. Impartiality
  26. Bellerophon
  27. Something Natural
  28. A Feeling
  29. The Lost Child
  30. The Church
  31. The Unlovely
  32. Love-Song
  33. Song (4)
  34. A Love-Dream
  35. Fourth Of July Ode
  36. Sphinx
  37. "Goe, Little Booke!"
  38. Disappointment
  39. To A Friend
  40. To ---- (1)
  41. Green Mountains
  42. "No More But So?"
  43. To A Voice Heard In Mount Auburn
  44. On Reading Spenser Again
  45. To The Evening-Star
  46. Reading
  47. To ----, After A Snow-Storm
  48. Sonnets On Names
  49. Rose
  50. Mary
  51. Caroline
  52. Anne
  53. Threnodia
  54. The Sirens
  55. Irené
  56. Serenade
  57. With A Pressed Flower
  58. The Beggar
  59. My Love
  60. Summer Storm
  61. Love
  62. To Perdita, Singing
  63. The Moon
  64. Remembered Music
  65. Song (5)
  66. Allegra
  67. The Fountain
  68. Ode (1)
  69. The Fatherland
  70. The Forlorn
  71. Midnight
  72. A Prayer
  73. The Heritage
  74. The Rose: A Ballad
  75. A Legend Of Brittany
  76. Prometheus
  77. Song (6)
  78. Rosaline
  79. The Shepherd Of King Admetus
  80. The Token
  81. An Incident In A Railroad Car
  82. Rhœcus
  83. The Falcon
  84. Trial
  85. A Requiem
  86. A Parable (1)
  87. A Glance Behind The Curtain
  88. Song (7)
  89. A Chippewa Legend.[A]
  90. Stanzas On Freedom
  91. Columbus
  92. An Incident Of The Fire At Hamburg
  93. The Sower
  94. Hunger And Cold
  95. The Landlord
  96. To A Pine-Tree
  97. Si Descendero In Infernum, Ades
  98. To The Past
  99. To The Future
  100. Hebe
  101. The Search
  102. The Present Crisis
  103. An Indian-Summer Reverie
  104. The Growth Of The Legend
  105. A Contrast
  106. Extreme Unction
  107. The Oak
  108. Ambrose
  109. Above And Below
  110. The Captive
  111. The Birch-Tree
  112. An Interview With Miles Standish
  113. To The Dandelion
  114. The Ghost-Seer
  115. Studies For Two Heads
  116. On A Portrait Of Dante By Giotto
  117. On The Death Of A Friend's Child
  118. Eurydice
  119. She Came And Went
  120. The Changeling
  121. The Pioneer
  122. Longing
  123. Ode To France
  124. A Parable (2)
  125. Ode (2)
  126. Lines
  127. To ---- (2)
  128. Freedom
  129. Bibliolatres
  130. Beaver Brook
  131. Appledore
  132. Dara
  133. Kossuth
  134. To Lamartine
  135. To The Memory Of Hood
  136. To The Spirit Of Keats
  137. Sub Pondere Crescit
  138. The Same Continued (1)
  139. The Same Continued (2)
  140. The Same Continued (3)
  141. The Same Continued (4)
  142. The Same Concluded
  143. In Absence
  144. Wendell Phillips
  145. The Street
  146. L'Envoi
  147. Aladdin
  148. In the Twilight
  149. Auspex
  150. To A.C.L.
  151. What were I, Love, if I were stripped of thee
  152. I would not have this perfect love of ours
  153. For this true nobleness I seek in vain
  154. Great Truths are portions of the soul of man
  155. I ask not for those thoughts, that sudden leap
  156. To M.W., on Her Birthday
  157. My Love, I have no fear that thou shouldst die
  158. I cannot think that thou shouldst pass away
  159. There never yet was flower fair in vain
  160. Beloved, in the noisy city here
  161. On Reading Wordsworth's Sonnets in Defence of Capital Punishment
  162. To M.O.S.
  163. Our love is not a fading, earthly flower
  164. I grieve not that ripe Knowledge takes away
  165. To J.R. Giddings
  166. I thought our love at full, but I did err
  167. On the Capture of Fugitive Slaves Near Washington
  168. Anti-Apis
  169. To John Gorham Palfrey
  170. To W.L. Garrison
  171. On the Death of Charles Turner Torrey
  172. Elegy on the Death of Dr. Channing
  173. Letter from Boston
  174. A Fable for Critics
  175. The Unhappy Lot of Mr. Knott
  176. Fragments of an Unfinished Poem
  177. An Oriental Apologue
  178. The Two Gunners: A Fable
  179. Leaving the Matter Open: A Tale
  180. The Biglow Papers, First Series, No. I: A Letter from Mr. Ezekiel Biglow
  181. The Biglow Papers, First Series, No. II: A Letter from Mr. Hosea Biglow
  182. The Biglow Papers, First Series, No. III: What Mr. Robinson Thinks
  183. The Biglow Papers, First Series, No. IV: Remarks of Increase D. O'Phace, Esquire
  184. The Biglow Papers, First Series, No. V: The Debate in the Sennit
  185. The Biglow Papers, First Series, No. VI: The Pious Editor's Creed
  186. The Biglow Papers, First Series, No. VII: A Letter from a Candidate for the Presidency
  187. The Biglow Papers, First Series, No. VIII: A Second Letter from B. Sawin, Esq.
  188. The Biglow Papers, First Series, No. IX: A Third Letter from B. Sawin, Esq.
  189. The Courtin'
  190. The Biglow Papers, Second Series, No. I: Birdofredum Sawin, Esq., to Mr. Hosea Biglow
  191. The Biglow Papers, Second Series, No. II: Mason and Slidell, a Yankee Idyll
  192. The Biglow Papers, Second Series, No. II: Jonathan to John
  193. The Biglow Papers, Second Series, No. III: Birdofredum Sawin, Esq., to Mr. Hosea Biglow
  194. Festina Lente
  195. The Biglow Papers, Second Series, No. IV: A Message of Jeff Davis in Secret Session
  196. The Biglow Papers, Second Series, No. V: Speech of Honourable Preserved Doe in Secret Caucus
  197. The Biglow Papers, Second Series, No. VI: Sunthin' in the Pastoral Line
  198. The Biglow Papers, Second Series, No. VII: Latest Views of Mr. Biglow
  199. The Biglow Papers, Second Series, No. VIII: Kettelopotomachia
  200. The Biglow Papers, Second Series, No. X: Mr. Hosea Biglow to the Editor of the Atlantic Monthly
  201. The Biglow Papers, Second Series, No. XI: Mr. Hosea Biglow's Speech in March Meeting
  202. Agro Dolce (1)
  203. Under the Willows
  204. The First Snow-Fall
  205. The Singing Leaves
  206. Seaweed
  207. The Finding of the Lyre
  208. New-Year's Eve, 1850
  209. For an Autograph
  210. Al Fresco
  211. Masaccio
  212. Without and Within
  213. Godminster Chimes
  214. The Parting of the Ways
  215. An Invitation
  216. The Nomades
  217. Self-Study
  218. Pictures from Appledore
  219. The Wind-Harp
  220. Auf Wiedersehen
  221. After the Burial
  222. The Dead House
  223. A Mood
  224. The Voyage to Vinland
  225. Mahmood the Image-Breaker
  226. Invita Minerva
  227. The Fountain of Youth
  228. Yussouf
  229. The Darkened Mind
  230. What Rabbi Jehosha Said
  231. All-Saints
  232. A Winter-Evening Hymn to My Fire
  233. Fancy's Casuistry
  234. To Mr. John Bartlett
  235. Ode to Happiness
  236. Villa Franca
  237. The Miner
  238. Gold Egg: A Dream-Fantasy
  239. A Familiar Epistle to a Friend
  240. An Ember Picture
  241. To H. W. L.
  242. The Nightingale in the Study
  243. The Foot-Path
  244. The Washers of the Shroud
  245. Two Scenes from the Life of Blondel
  246. Memoriae Positum
  247. On Board the '76
  248. Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration
  249. L'Envoi: To the Muse
  250. The Cathedral
  251. Ode Read at the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Fight at Concord Bridge
  252. Under the Old Elm
  253. An Ode for the Fourth of July, 1876
  254. Agassiz
  255. To Holmes
  256. On Receiving a Copy of Mr. Austin Dobson's 'old World Idylls'
  257. To C.F. Bradford
  258. Bankside
  259. Joseph Winlock
  260. Sonnet: To Fanny Alexander
  261. Jeffries Wyman
  262. To a Friend (2)
  263. With an Armchair
  264. E.G. De R.
  265. Bon Voyage
  266. To Whittier
  267. On an Autumn Sketch of H.G. Wild
  268. To Miss D.T.
  269. With a Copy of Aucassin and Nicolete
  270. On Planting a Tree at Inveraray
  271. An Epistle to George William Curtis
  272. Endymion
  273. The Black Preacher
  274. Arcadia Rediviva
  275. The Nest
  276. Palinode--December
  277. A Youthful Experiment in English Hexameters: Impressions of Homer
  278. Birthday Verses
  279. Estrangement
  280. Das Ewig-Weibliche
  281. The Recall
  282. Absence
  283. Monna Lisa
  284. The Optimist
  285. On Burning Some Old Letters
  286. The Protest
  287. The Petition
  288. Fact or Fancy?
  289. Agro-Dolce (2)
  290. The Broken Tryst
  291. Casa Sin Alma: Recuerdo de Madrid
  292. A Christmas Carol
  293. My Portrait Gallery
  294. Paolo to Francesca
  295. Sonnet: Scottish Border
  296. Sonnet: On Being Asked for an Autograph in Venice
  297. The Dancing Bear
  298. The Maple
  299. Nightwatches
  300. Death of Queen Mercedes
  301. Prison of Cervantes
  302. To a Lady Playing on the Cithern
  303. The Eye's Treasury
  304. Pessimoptimism
  305. The Brakes
  306. A Foreboding
  307. Under the October Maples
  308. Love's Clock
  309. Eleanor Makes Macaroons
  310. Telepathy
  311. Scherzo
  312. The Pregnant Comment
  313. The Lesson
  314. Science and Poetry
  315. A New Year's Greeting
  316. The Discovery
  317. With a Seashell
  318. The Secret
  319. Fitz Adam's Story
  320. The Origin of Didactic Poetry
  321. The Flying Dutchman
  322. Credidimus Jovem Regnare
  323. Tempora Mutantur
  324. In the Half-Way House
  325. At the Burns Centennial
  326. In an Album
  327. At the Commencement Dinner, 1866
  328. A Parable (3)
  329. Sayings
  330. For a Bell at Cornell University
  331. For a Memorial Window to Sir Walter Raleigh, Set Up in St. Margaret's, Westminster, by American Contributors
  332. Proposed for a Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument in Boston
  333. A Misconception
  334. The Boss
  335. Sun-Worship
  336. Changed Perspective
  337. With a Pair of Gloves Lost in a Wager
  338. Sixty-Eighth Birthday
  339. International Copyright
  340. How I Consulted the Oracle of the Goldfishes
  341. Turner's Old Téméraire: Under a Figure Symbolizing the Church
  342. St. Michael the Weigher
  343. A Valentine
  344. An April Birthday--At Sea
  345. Love and Thought
  346. The Nobler Lover
  347. On Hearing a Sonata of Beethoven's Played in the Next Room
  348. Verses Intended to Go with a Posset Dish
  349. On a Bust of General Grant
  350. Sonnets
  351. The School-House
  352. A Revolutionary Hero
  353. Flawless His Heart
  354. The New-Come Chief
  355. Palinode: Autumn
  356. In a Copy of Omar Khayyám
  357. Phœbe
  358. An Autograph

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