...presentation of characteristic features. He did not spare himself : — " There is Lowell, who 's striving Parnassus to climb With a whole bale of isms tied...together with rhyme. He might get on alone, spite of troubles and bowlders, But he can't with that bundle he has on his shoulders. The top of the hill he...

...brachte dieses Gefühl in den folgenden launigen Versen zum Ausdruck: „There is Lowell who's striving Parnassus to climb With a whole bale of isms tied together with rbyme, He might get on alone, spite of brambles and boulders, But he can't with that bundle he has...

...upon American writers in his Fable for Critics. In this poem he has a fling against even himself: — He might get on alone, spite of brambles and boulders,...lyre has some chords that would ring pretty well; But he'd rather by half make a drum of the shell, And rattle away till he's old as Methusalem, At the head...

...the author of the poem, he puts in a free criticism of himself: 1 78 There is Lowell, who 's striving Parnassus to climb With a whole bale of isms tied...has on his shoulders. The top of the hill he will never come nigh reaching Till he learns the distinction 'twixt singing and preaching; His lyre has...

...perfection of many poems, was recognized by himself in his couplet in " A Fable for Critics " : — " The top of the hill he will ne'er come nigh reaching,...the distinction 'twixt singing and preaching." His later poems often recall the same boyish associations that incited one of his earliest efforts, " Our...

...profession in 1841. It took more to be a poet of reform, or as Lowell playfully puts it, "... Mount Parnassus to climb, With a whole bale of isms tied together with rhyme." But he was fully alive to the demand of the times. " My calling is clear to me. I am never lifted up...

...when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes. ON HIMSELF There is Lowell, who 's striving Parnassus to climb With a whole bale of isms tied...has some chords that would ring pretty well, But he 'd rather by half make a drum of the shell, And rattle away till he 's old as Methusalem, At the head...

...doubt if the toes That are trodden upon are your own or your foes'. " There is Lowell, who 'a striving Parnassus to climb With a whole bale of isms tied...has some chords that would ring pretty well, But he 'd rather by half make a drum of the shell, And rattle away till he 's old as Methusalem, At the head...

...John P. Robinson he Sez the world'll go right ef he hollers out Geel " There is Lowell, who's striving Parnassus to climb With a whole bale of isms tied...lyre has some chords that would ring pretty well, But he'd rather by half make a drum of the shell, And rattle away till he's old as Methusalem, At the head...

...except her own rivers and lakes. ON HIMSELF There is Lowell, who 's striving Parnassus to climb Willi a whole bale of isms tied together with rhyme, He...has some chords that would ring pretty well, But he 'd rather by half make a drum of the shell, And rattle away till he 's old as Methusalem, At the head...