James Russell Lowell. POEMS. _Cabinet Edition._ 16mo, $1.00. _Household Edition._ With Portrait. 12mo, $1.75; full gilt, $2.25. _Red-Line Edition._ Illustrated. Small 4to, $2.50. _Blue and Gold Edition._ 2 vols. 32mo, $2.50. _Family Edition._ Illustrated. 8vo, full gilt, $2.50. _Illustrated Library Edition._ 8vo, $3.50. THE COURTIN'. Illustrated. 4to. THE VISION OF SIR LAUNFAL. Illustrated. Small 4to, $2.00. THE SAME. Illustrated by the best artists. A Holiday Book. 4to, $10.00. THE SAME. With The Cathedral, etc. 32mo, 75 cents. THE BIGLOW PAPERS. _Riverside Aldine Edition._ Series I. and II. Each, one volume, 16mo, $1.00. THREE MEMORIAL POEMS. Square 16mo, $1.25. THE ROSE. Illustrated. Square 16mo, $1.50. UNDER THE OLD ELM, etc. 16mo, paper, 15 cents. HEARTSEASE AND RUE. 16mo, $1.25. UNDER THE OLD ELM, etc. 16mo, paper, 15 cents. FIRESIDE TRAVELS, 12mo, $1.50. _Riverside Aldine Edition._ 16mo, $1.00. AMONG MY BOOKS. First Series. 12mo, $2.00. AMONG MY BOOKS. Second Series. 12mo, $2.00. MY STUDY WINDOWS. 12mo, $2.00. MY GARDEN ACQUAINTANCE, etc. 32mo, 75 cents. WORKS. 5 vols. 12mo, $9.00. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. In American Men of Letters Series. With Portrait. 16mo, $1.25. (_In Press._) DEMOCRACY AND OTHER ADDRESSES. 16mo, $1.25. LOWELL BIRTHDAY BOOK. Illustrated. 32mo, $1.00. LOWELL CALENDAR. 50 cents. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY, BOSTON AND NEW YORK. [Illustration: _J.R.Lowell._] HEARTSEASE AND RUE BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL [Illustration] BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1888 Copyright, 1888, BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. _All rights reserved._ _The Riverside Press, Cambridge_: Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co. _Along the wayside where we pass bloom few_ _Gay plants of heartsease, more of saddening rue;_ _So life is mingled; so should poems be_ _That speak a conscious word to you and me._ CONTENTS. I. FRIENDSHIP. PAGE AGASSIZ 1 TO HOLMES ON HIS SEVENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY 23 IN A COPY OF OMAR KHAYYÁM 26 ON RECEIVING A COPY OF MR. AUSTIN DOBSON’S “OLD WORLD IDYLLS” 27