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Poetry
Chapitres (20)
- The Maiden’s Harvest 0:00
- Song 2:04
- The Alpine Sheep 4:01
- Africa 6:29
- Jesus and the Dove 12:16
- The Morning-Glory 15:38
- The Slave-Mother 18:13
- Necklaces 20:16
- Cadiz 21:07
- Rome 22:33
- The Grace of Keats 23:21
- Avignon 24:41
- Rouen, Place de la Pucelle 27:11
- The Sick-Room 28:19
- An Opium Fantasy 29:51
- Sonnet: These Rugged Wintry Days I Scarce Could Bear 31:32
- Sonnet: In the Deep Flushing of the Western Sky 32:35
- Sonnet: To ⸻ 33:48
- Sonnet: I Love Thee for Thyself Alone—Thyself Alone 34:43
- Memories of Waters 35:55
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Throughout her brief life, Maria White Lowell was a steady partner to her husband, poet James Russell Lowell, and a dedicated advocate for abolition. But their happy marriage was shadowed by profound grief: of their four children, only one survived infancy. When Maria died of tuberculosis aged just thirty-two, her devastated husband privately published this collection of her poetry to preserve her memory.
Rooted in both her firm moral convictions and deep personal sorrows, the resulting volume captures a passionate, distinct voice. Faced with the loss of her infant daughter, Lowell pours her grief into “The Morning-Glory.” Drawing a delicate parallel between her child and the brief, bright bloom of the titular flower, she reflects on a life that withered almost before it had begun. Rather than retreating into abstract mourning, she grounds her poetry in the physical reality of her sorrow, capturing a mother’s heartbreak with unflinching clarity.