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THE COMPLETE POETICALWORKS OFJAMES RUSSELLLOWELL

Cabinet Edition

BOSTON AND NEW YORKHOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANYTHE RIVERSIDE PRESS, CAMBRIDGE

M DCCCC II

PUBLISHERS' NOTE

Mr. Lowell, the year before he died, edited a definitive edition of hisworks, known as the Riverside edition. Subsequently, his literaryexecutor, Mr. C.E. Norton, issued a final posthumous collection, and theCambridge edition followed, including all the poems in the Riversideedition, and the poems edited by Mr. Norton. The present Cabinet editioncontains all the poems in the Cambridge edition. It is made from newplates, and for the convenience of the student the longer poems havetheir lines numbered, and indexes of titles and first lines are added.

Autumn, 1899.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

EARLIER POEMS.

THRENODIATHE SIRENSIRENÉSERENADEWITH A PRESSED FLOWERTHE BEGGARMY LOVESUMMER STORMLOVETO PERDITA, SINGINGTHE MOONREMEMBERED MUSICSONG. TO M.L.ALLEGRATHE FOUNTAINODETHE FATHERLANDTHE FORLORNMIDNIGHTA PRAYERTHE HERITAGETHE ROSE: A BALLADSONG, 'VIOLET! SWEET VIOLET!'ROSALINEA REQUIEMA PARABLESONG, 'O MOONLIGHT DEEP AND TENDER'

SONNETS. I. TO A.C.L. 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' X. 'I CANNOT THINK THAT THOU SHOULDST PASS AWAY' XI. 'THERE NEVER YET WAS FLOWER FAIR IN VAIN' XII. SUB PONDERE CRESCIT XIII. 'BELOVED, IN THE NOISY CITY HERE' XIV. ON READING WORDSWORTH'S SONNETS IN DEFENCE OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT XV. THE SAME CONTINUED. XVI. THE SAME CONTINUED. XVII. THE SAME CONTINUED. XVIII. THE SAME CONTINUED. XIX. THE SAME CONCLUDED. XX. TO M.O.S. XXI. 'OUR LOVE IS NOT A FADING, EARTHLY FLOWER' XXII. IN ABSENCE XXIII. WENDELL PHILLIPS XXIV. THE STREET XXV. 'I GRIEVE NOT THAT RIPE KNOWLEDGE TAKES AWAY' XXVI. TO J.R. GIDDINGS XXVII. 'I THOUGHT OUR LOVE AT FULL, BUT I DID ERR' L'ENVOI

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

  A LEGEND OF BRITTANY
  PROMETHEUS
  THE SHEPHERD OF KING ADMETUS
  THE TOKEN
  AN INCIDENT IN A RAILROAD CAR
  RHOECUS
  THE FALCON
  TRIAL
  A GLANCE BEHIMD THE CURTAIN
  A CHIPPEWA LEGEND
  STANZAS ON FREEDOM
  COLUMBUS
  AN INCIDENT OF THE FIRE AT HAMBURG
  THE SOWER
  HUNGER AND COLD
  THE LANDLORD
  TO A PINE-TREE
  SI DESCENDERO IN INFERNUM, ADES
  TO THE PAST
  TO THE FUTURE
  HEBE
  THE SEARCH
  THE PRESENT CRISIS
  AN INDIAN-SUMMER REVERIE
  THE GROWTH OF THE LEGEND
  A CONTRAST
  EXTREME UNCTION
  THE OAK
  AMBROS

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