# Heartsease and Rue

Author: Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891

Genre: Category: Poetry

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68260

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Heartsease+and+Rue+Lowell&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The electric nerve, whose instantaneous thrill Makes next-door gossips of the antipodes, Confutes poor Hope’s last fallacy of ease,-- The distance that divided her from ill: Earth sentient seems again as when of old The horny foot of Pan Stamped, and the conscious horror ran Beneath men’s feet through all her fibres cold: Space’s blue walls are mined; we feel the throe From underground of our night-mantled foe: The flame-winged feet Of Trade’s new Mercury, that dry-shod run Through briny abysses dreamless of the sun, Are mercilessly fleet, And at a bound annihilate Ocean’s prerogative of short reprieve; Surely ill news might wait, And man be patient of delay to grieve: Letters have sympat...

## Chapters

- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/heartsease-and-rue-68260/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/heartsease-and-rue-68260/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/heartsease-and-rue-68260/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/heartsease-and-rue-68260/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/heartsease-and-rue-68260/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/heartsease-and-rue-68260/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/heartsease-and-rue-68260/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/heartsease-and-rue-68260/chapters/8/index.md)