A Year's Life
A YEAR'S LIFE.
A
YEAR'S LIFE.
BY
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.
Ich habe gelebt und geliebet.
BOSTON:
C. C. LITTLE AND J. BROWN.
M DCCC XLI.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1841, by
C. C. Little and J. Brown,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
CAMBRIDGE:
FOLSOM, WELLS, AND THURSTON,
PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.
DEDICATION.
The gentle Una I have loved,
The snowy maiden, pure and mild,
Since ever by her side I roved,
Through ventures strange, a wondering child,
In fantasy a Red Cross Knight,
Burning for her dear sake to fight.
If there be one who can, like her,
Make sunshine in life's shady places,
One in whose holy bosom stir
As many gentle household graces,—
And such I think there needs must be,—
Will she accept this book from me?
CONTENTS.
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Threnodia
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3 |
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The Serenade
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10 |
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Song. "Lift up the curtains of thine eyes"
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15 |
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The Departed
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17 |
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The Boblink
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24 |
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Song. "What reck I of the stars, when I"
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30 |
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The Poet
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32 |
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Flowers
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35 |
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The Lover
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43 |
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To E. W. G.
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46 |
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Isabel
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51 |
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Music
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54 |
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Song. "O! I must look on that sweet face"
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30 |
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Ianthe
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65 |
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Love's Altar
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76 |
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My Love
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79 |
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With a Pressed Flower
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84 |
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Impartiality
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87 |
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Bellerophon
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89 |
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Something Natural
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97 |
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The Syrens
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99 |
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A Feeling
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105 |
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The Beggar
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107 |
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Serenade
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110 |
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112 |
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The Lost Child
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118 |
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The Church
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120 |
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The Unlovely
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124 |
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Love-Song
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128 |
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Song. "All things are sad"
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130 |
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A Love-Dream
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134 |
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138 |
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Sphinx
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140 |
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Sonnets. I. Disappointment
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145 |
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Sonnets. I.II. "Great human nature"
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146 |
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Sonnets. I.III. To a Friend
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147 |
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Sonnets. I.IV. Continued
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148 |
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Sonnets. I.V. "O child of Nature"
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149 |
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Sonnets. I.VI. "For this true nobleness"
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Sonnets. I.VII. To —
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Sonnets. I.VIII. Continued
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Sonnets. I.IX. "Why should we ever weary"
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153 |
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Sonnets. I.X. Green Mountains
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Sonnets. I.XI. "My friend, adown Life's valley"
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Sonnets. I.XII. "Verse cannot say how beautiful"
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156 |
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Sonnets. I.XIII. "The soul would fain"
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157 |
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Sonnets. I.XIV. "I saw a gate"
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158 |
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Sonnets. I.XV. "I would not have this perfect love"
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159 |
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Sonnets. I.XVI. "To the dark, narrow house"
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160 |
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Sonnets. I.XVII. "I fain would give to thee"
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161 |
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Sonnets. I.XVIII. "Much had I mused"
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162 |
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Sonnets. I.XIX. "Sayest thou, most beautiful"
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163 |
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Sonnets. I.XX. "Poet! who sittest in thy pleasant room"
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164 |
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Sonnets. I.XXI. "No more but so?"
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165 |
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Sonnets. I.XXII. To a Voice heard in Mount Auburn
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166 |
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Sonnets. I.XXIII. On reading Spenser again
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167 |
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Sonnets. I.XXIV. "Light of mine eyes!"
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168 |
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Sonnets. I.XXV. "Silent as one who treads"
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169 |
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Sonnets. I.XXVI. "A gentleness that grows of steady faith"
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Sonnets. I.XXVII. "When the glad soul is full"
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171 |
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Sonnets. I.XXVIII. To the Evening-star
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172 |
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Sonnets. I.XXIX. Reading
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173 |
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Sonnets. I.XXX. To —, after a Snow-storm
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174 |
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Sonnet on Names. I. Edith
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Sonnets. I.II. Rose
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176 |
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Sonnets. I.III. Mary
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177 |
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Sonnets. I.IV. Caroline
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178 |
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Sonnets. I.V. Anne
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"Goe, Little Booke!"
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