. Seven great American poets. tten Avhen he -was aman of mature years, Lowell thus describes his favoriteroom: Here T am in 1113- garret. I slept here wlren I was a littl(^curly-lieaded boy, and u,-e<l to see visions Ijetween me and tlieceiling, and dream that so often reenrring dream of having theearth put into my hand like an orange. In it I used to Ije shutup without a lamp — my mother sa^-ing that none of her childrenshould be afraid of the dark — to hide my head under the pil-lows, and then not to be alile to shut out the sha])ele.~s monstirsthat thronged around me, minted in my brain.
. Seven great American poets. tten Avhen he -was aman of mature years, Lowell thus describes his favoriteroom: Here T am in 1113- garret. I slept here wlren I was a littl(^curly-lieaded boy, and u,-e<l to see visions Ijetween me and tlieceiling, and dream that so often reenrring dream of having theearth put into my hand like an orange. In it I used to Ije shutup without a lamp — my mother sa^-ing that none of her childrenshould be afraid of the dark — to hide my head under the pil-lows, and then not to be alile to shut out the sha])ele.~s monstirsthat thronged around me, minted in my brain. It is a pleasant 282 JAMES KITSSKLL LO^\?KLL room, facing, from the position of the house, almost equallytoward thi! morning and the afternoon. In -winter 1 run sun thesunset, in summer I can see it only as it lights up the tall trunksof the English elms in front of the hoiiS(% making them some-times, when the sky isehind them is lead-colored, se(;m of themost brilliant yellow, ^\?hen the sun, towards setting, breaks. «/,
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