The Writings of James Russell Lowell ...: PoemsPrinted at the Riverside Press, 1896 |
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... slavery , war , the social glass , and , in short , all the valuable and time - honored insti- tutions justly dear to our common humanity and especially to republicans , are made the butt of coarse and senseless ribaldry by this low ...
... slavery , war , the social glass , and , in short , all the valuable and time - honored insti- tutions justly dear to our common humanity and especially to republicans , are made the butt of coarse and senseless ribaldry by this low ...
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... slavery or freedom to the adjudication of chance , I did myself indite a short fable or apologue after the manner of Gay and Prior , to the end that he might see how easily even such subjects as he treated of were capable of a more ...
... slavery or freedom to the adjudication of chance , I did myself indite a short fable or apologue after the manner of Gay and Prior , to the end that he might see how easily even such subjects as he treated of were capable of a more ...
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... slaves o ' niggers Want to make wite slaves o ' you . Tell ye jest the eend I've come to Arter cipherin ' plaguy ... Slavery aint o ' nary color , " Taint the hide thet makes it wus , All it keers fer in a feller ' S jest to make him ...
... slaves o ' niggers Want to make wite slaves o ' you . Tell ye jest the eend I've come to Arter cipherin ' plaguy ... Slavery aint o ' nary color , " Taint the hide thet makes it wus , All it keers fer in a feller ' S jest to make him ...
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... slaves , Help the men thet ' s ollers dealin ' Insults on your fathers ' graves ; Help the strong to grind the feeble , Help the many agin the few , Help the men thet call your people Witewashed slaves an ' peddlin ' crew ...
... slaves , Help the men thet ' s ollers dealin ' Insults on your fathers ' graves ; Help the strong to grind the feeble , Help the many agin the few , Help the men thet call your people Witewashed slaves an ' peddlin ' crew ...
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... slavery ; Thet our army desarves our best thanks fer their bravery ; Thet we ' re the original friends o ' the nation , All the rest air a paltry an ' base fabrication ; Thet we highly respect Messrs . A , B , an ' C , An ' ez deeply ...
... slavery ; Thet our army desarves our best thanks fer their bravery ; Thet we ' re the original friends o ' the nation , All the rest air a paltry an ' base fabrication ; Thet we highly respect Messrs . A , B , an ' C , An ' ez deeply ...
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Page 78 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Page 10 - There warn't no stoves (tell comfort died) To bake ye to a puddin'. The wa'nut logs shot sparkles out Towards the pootiest, bless her, An' leetle flames danced all about The chiny on the dresser.
Page 212 - An' she looked full ez rosy agin Ez the apples she was peelin'. 'T was kin' o' kingdom-come to look On sech a blessed cretur, A dogrose blushin' to a brook Ain't modester nor sweeter. He was six foot o...
Page 11 - An' on which one he felt the wust He couldn't ha' told ye nuther. Says he, "I'd better call agin," Says she, "Think likely, Mister;" Thet last word pricked him like a pin, An' — wal, he up an
Page 66 - An' into nobody's tater-patch pokes; But John P. Robinson he Sez he wun't vote fer Guvener B. My ! ain't it terrible? Wut shall we du? We can't never choose him o...
Page 274 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people, and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country to the discredit of the plantation.
Page 46 - Trainin' round in bobtail coats, — But it's curus Christian dooty This 'ere cuttin' folks's throats. They may talk o' Freedom's airy Tell they're pupple in the face,^ It's a grand gret cemetary Fer the barthrights of our race; They jest want this Californy So's to lug new slave-states in To abuse ye, an' to scorn ye, An
Page 103 - Thet bombshells, grape, an' powder 'n' ball Air good-will's strongest magnets, Thet peace, to make it stick at all, Must be druv in with bagnets. In short, I firmly du believe In Humbug generally, Fer it 'aa thing thet I perceive To hev a solid vally ; This heth my faithful shepherd ben, In pasturs sweet heth led me, An' this '11 keep the people green To feed ez they hev fed me.
Page 273 - Judge not the preacher; for he is thy judge. If thou mislike him, thou conceiv'st him not. God calleth preaching, folly. Do not grudge To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. The worst speak something good. If all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
Page 245 - Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs...