ISBN: 9781152497610

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… More...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...I read on? TO C F. BRADFORD ON THE GIFT OF A MEERSCHAUM PIPE The pipe came safe, and welcome too, As anything must be from you; A meerschaum pure, ''t would float as light As she the girls call Amphitrite. Mixture divine of foam and clay, From both it stole the best away: Its foam is such as crowns the glow Of beakers brimmed by Veuve Clicquot; Its clay is but congested lymph Jove chose to make some choicer nymph; And here combined,--why, this must be The birth of some enchanted sea, Shaped to immortal form, the type And very Venus of a pipe. When high I heap it with the weed From Lethe wharf, whose potent seed Nicotia, big from Bacchus, bore And cast upon Virginia''s shore, I ''ll think,--So fill the fairer bowl And wise alembic of thy soul, With herbs far-sought that shall distil, Not fumes to slacken thought and will, But bracing essences that nerve To wait, to dare, to strive, to serve. When curls the smoke in eddies soft, And hangs a shifting dream aloft, That gives and takes, though chance-designed, The impress of the dreamer''s mind, I ''ll think,--So let the vapors bred By Passion, in the heart or head, Pass off and upward into space, Waving farewells of tenderest grace, Remembered in some happier time, To blend their beauty with my rhyme. While slowly o''er its candid bowl The color deepens (as the soul That burns in mortals leaves its trace Of bale or beauty on the face), I ''ll think,--So let the essence rare Of years consuming make me fair; So, ''gainst the ills of life profuse, Steep me in some narcotic juice; And if my soul must part with all That whiteness which we greenness call, Smooth back, O Fortune, half thy frown, And make me beautifully brown! Dream-forger. I refill thy cup With reverie''s wasteful pittance up, And while the fire burns slow awa... James Russell Lowell, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, The Works Of James Russell Lowell Volume 10 Books>Fiction and Literature>Fiction Volume: 8 Publisher: Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.<

ISBN: 9781152497610

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… More...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...I read on? TO C F. BRADFORD ON THE GIFT OF A MEERSCHAUM PIPE The pipe came safe, and welcome too, As anything must be from you; A meerschaum pure, ''t would float as light As she the girls call Amphitrite. Mixture divine of foam and clay, From both it stole the best away: Its foam is such as crowns the glow Of beakers brimmed by Veuve Clicquot; Its clay is but congested lymph Jove chose to make some choicer nymph; And here combined,--why, this must be The birth of some enchanted sea, Shaped to immortal form, the type And very Venus of a pipe. When high I heap it with the weed From Lethe wharf, whose potent seed Nicotia, big from Bacchus, bore And cast upon Virginia''s shore, I ''ll think,--So fill the fairer bowl And wise alembic of thy soul, With herbs far-sought that shall distil, Not fumes to slacken thought and will, But bracing essences that nerve To wait, to dare, to strive, to serve. When curls the smoke in eddies soft, And hangs a shifting dream aloft, That gives and takes, though chance-designed, The impress of the dreamer''s mind, I ''ll think,--So let the vapors bred By Passion, in the heart or head, Pass off and upward into space, Waving farewells of tenderest grace, Remembered in some happier time, To blend their beauty with my rhyme. While slowly o''er its candid bowl The color deepens (as the soul That burns in mortals leaves its trace Of bale or beauty on the face), I ''ll think,--So let the essence rare Of years consuming make me fair; So, ''gainst the ills of life profuse, Steep me in some narcotic juice; And if my soul must part with all That whiteness which we greenness call, Smooth back, O Fortune, half thy frown, And make me beautifully brown! Dream-forger. I refill thy cup With reverie''s wasteful pittance up, And while the fire burns slow awa... James Russell Lowell, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, The Works Of James Russell Lowell Volume 10 Books>Fiction and Literature>Fiction, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781152497610

[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Volume: 8 Publisher: Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There ar… More...

[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Volume: 8 Publisher: Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<

ISBN: 9781152497610

[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Volume: 8 Publisher: Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There ar… More...

[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Volume: 8 Publisher: Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<