In still small accents whispering
from the ground

A grateful earnest of eternal peace."

Gray's Monument

"There scattered oft, the earliest of

the year,

By hands unseen are showers of
violets found;

The redbreast loves to build and
warble there,

And little footsteps lightly print the
ground."

Portrait of James Russell Lowell .

"All the great gifts that lavish Nature

gave

By study, culture, art, were trained

and formed

As scholar, critic, poet-gay or

grave

The world to thee with heart respon

sive warmed."

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Portrait of Alfred Tennyson

"Others shall have their little space

of time,

Their proper niche and bust, then
fade away

Into the darkness, poets of a day!
But thou, O Builder of enduring

rhyme,

Thou shalt not pass. Thy fame in

every clime

On earth shall live where Saxon

speech has sway."

"Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky" Portrait of John Milton

"A genius universal as his theme, Astonishing as chaos, as the bloom Of Eden fair, as heaven sublime." Lowell's Study

"A prim and delightful old-fashioned
apartment, with low walls, a wide
and cheerful fire-place, and pleasant
windows which look out among the
trees and lilacs upon a long reach
of lawn."

Portrait of Percy Bysshe Shelley

"A spirit of the sun,

An intellect ablaze with heavenly

thoughts."

Milton Dictating Samson Agonistes

"The living Throne, the sapphire

blaze,

Where Angels tremble, while they
gaze,

He saw; but blasted with excess of

light,

Closed his eyes in endless night."

Portrait of James Whitcomb Riley

"His verse blooms like a flower,

night and day;

Bees cluster round his rhymes; and
twitterings

Of lark and swallow in an endless
May,

Are mingling with the tender song
he sings."

Stairway in Longfellow's Home

"And from its station in the hall

An ancient time-piece says to all

Forever-never!

Never-forever!"

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Longfellow's Home at Cambridge

"A home that must be a joy forever

to the poet's heart."

Portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The clear, sweet singer with the
crown of snow

Not whiter than the thoughts that
housed below."

The Study in Longfellow's Home

"where the tender and sympathetic

bard wrought the most and the best
of his life-work."