The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
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Chapter 5 TO A.C.L.
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Chapter 9 TO THE SPIRIT OF KEATS
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Chapter 12 TO M.W., ON HER BIRTHDAY
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Chapter 16 SUB PONDERE CRESCIT
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Chapter 18 ON READING WORDSWORTH'S SONNETS IN DEFENCE OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Chapter 19 THE SAME CONTINUED
Chapter 20 THE SAME CONTINUED 20
Chapter 21 THE SAME CONTINUED 21
Chapter 22 THE SAME CONTINUED 22
Chapter 23 THE SAME CONCLUDED
Chapter 24 TO M.O.S.
Chapter 25 No.25
Chapter 26 IN ABSENCE
Chapter 27 WENDELL PHILLIPS
Chapter 28 THE STREET
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Chapter 30 TO J.R. GIDDINGS
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Chapter 48 No.48
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Chapter 48 No.48

He had been noble, but some great deceit

Had turned his better instinct to a vice:

He strove to think the world was all a cheat,

That power and fame were cheap at any price, 140

That the sure way of being shortly great

Was even to play life's game with loaded dice,

Since he had tried the honest play and found

That vice and virt

             
            

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