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Title: The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell

Author: James Lowell

Release Date: August 28, 2004 [EBook #13310]

Language: English

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THE COMPLETE POETICAL
WORKS OF
JAMES RUSSELL
LOWELL

Cabinet Edition

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
THE RIVERSIDE PRESS, CAMBRIDGE

M DCCCC II

PUBLISHERS' NOTE

Mr. Lowell, the year before he died, edited a definitive edition of his
works, known as the Riverside edition. Subsequently, his literary
executor, Mr. C.E. Norton, issued a final posthumous collection, and the
Cambridge edition followed, including all the poems in the Riverside
edition, and the poems edited by Mr. Norton. The present Cabinet edition
contains all the poems in the Cambridge edition. It is made from new
plates, and for the convenience of the student the longer poems have
their lines numbered, and indexes of titles and first lines are added.

_Autumn, 1899_.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

EARLIER POEMS.

THRENODIA
THE SIRENS
IRENE
SERENADE
WITH A PRESSED FLOWER
THE BEGGAR
MY LOVE
SUMMER STORM
LOVE
TO PERDITA, SINGING
THE MOON
REMEMBERED MUSIC
SONG. TO M.L.
ALLEGRA
THE FOUNTAIN
ODE
THE FATHERLAND
THE FORLORN
MIDNIGHT
A PRAYER
THE HERITAGE
THE ROSE: A BALLAD
SONG, 'VIOLET! SWEET VIOLET!'
ROSALINE
A REQUIEM
A PARABLE
SONG, 'O MOONLIGHT DEEP AND TENDER'

SONNETS.
I. TO A.C.L.
II. 'WHAT WERE I, LOVE, IF I WERE STRIPPED OF THEE