The Vision of Sir Launfal: And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other IllustrationsLowell, James Russell
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The Vision of Sir Launfal: And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations
Lowell, James Russell
American poetry
Pan leaps and pipes all summer long,
The fairies dance each full-mooned night,
Would we but doff our lenses strong,
And trust our wiser eyes' delight.
City of Elf-land, just without 45
Our seeing, marvel ever new,
Glimpsed in fair weather, a sweet doubt
Sketched-in, mirage-like, on the blue.
I build thee in yon sunset cloud,
Whose edge allures to climb the height; 50
I hear thy drowned bells, inly-loud,
From still pools dusk with dreams of night.
Thy gates are shut to hardiest will,
Thy countersign of long-lost speech,--
Those fountained courts, those chambers still, 55
Fronting Time's far East, who shall reach?
I know not, and will never pry,
But trust our human heart for all;
Wonders that from the seeker fly
Into an open sense may fall. 60
Hide in thine own soul, and surprise
The password of the unwary elves;
Seek it, thou canst not bribe their spies;
Unsought, they whisper it themselves.
The Riverside Literature Series.
_With Introductions, Notes, Historical Sketches, and Biographical
Sketches. Each regular single number, paper, 15 cents._
1. Longfellow's Evangeline.[33][36]
2. Longfellow's Courtship of Miles Standish; Elizabeth.[33]
3. Longfellow's Courtship of Miles Standish. DRAMATIZED.
4. Whittier's Snow-Bound, and Other Poems.[33][36][34]
5. Whittier's Mabel Martin, and Other Poems.[34]
6. Holmes's Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle, etc.[34]
7, 8, 9. Hawthorne's Grandfather's Chair: True Stories from New
England History. 1620-1803. In three parts.[36]
10. Hawthorne's Biographical Stories. With Questions.[34]
11. Longfellow's Children's Hour, and Other Selections.[34]
12. Studies in Longfellow. Thirty-two Topics for Study.
13, 14. Longfellow's Song of Hiawatha. In two parts.[35]
15. Lowell's Under the Old Elm, and Other Poems.[34]
16. Bayard Taylor's Lars: a Pastoral of Norway; and Other Poems.
17, 18. Hawthorne's Wonder-Book. In two parts.[35]
19, 20. Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography. In two parts.[35]
21. Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac, etc.
22, 23. Hawthorne's Tanglewood Tales. In two parts.[35]
24. Washington's Rules of Conduct, Letters and Addresses.[33]
25, 26. Longfellow's Golden Legend. In two parts.[35]
27. Thoreau's Succession of Forest Trees, Sounds, and Wild Apples.
With a Biographical Sketch by R.W. EMERSON.
28. John Burroughs's Birds and Bees.[34]
29. Hawthorne's Little Daffydowndilly, and Other Stories.[34]
30. Lowell's Vision of Sir Launfal, and Other Pieces.[33][36][34]
31. Holmes's My Hunt after the Captain, and Other Papers.[33]
32. Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Speech, and Other Papers.
33, 34, 35. Longfellow's Tales of a Wayside Inn. In three parts.[35]
36. John Burroughs's Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers.[34]
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