Poems of James Russell Lowell - Part 76
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Phrygian language, whether Adam spoke it, 394.

Pilgrims, the, 410.

Pillows, const.i.tutional, 413.

Pinto, Mr., some letters of his commended, 428.

Pisgah, an impromptu one, 441.

Platform, party, a convenient one, 439.

Plato, supped with, 427 his man, 431.

Pleiades, the, not enough esteemed, 426.

Pliny, his letters not admired, 427.

Plotinus, a story of, 417.

Plymouth Rock, Old, a Convention wrecked on, 410.

Point Tribulation, Mr. Sawin wrecked on, 440.

Poles, exile, whether crop of beans depends on, 397, _note_.

Polk, President, synonymous with our country, 403 censured, 410 in danger of being crushed, 411.

Polka, Mexican, 400.

Pomp, a runaway slave, his nest, 450 hypocritically groans like white man, _ib._ blind to Christian privileges, _ib._ his society valued at fifty dollars, _ib._ his treachery, 451 takes Mr. Sawin prisoner, 452 cruelly makes him work, _ib._ puts himself illegally under his tuition, _ib._ dismisses him with contumelious epithets, _ib._

Pontifical bull, a tamed one, 399.

Pope, his verse excellent, 393.

Pork, refractory in boiling, 399.

Portugal, Alphonso the Sixth of, a monster, 453.

Post, Boston, 174 shaken visibly, 405 bad guide-post, _ib._ too swift, _ib._ edited by a colonel, _ib._ who is presumed officially in Mexico, _ib._ referred to, 415.

Pot-hooks, death in, 432.

Preacher, an ornamental symbol, 421 a breeder of dogmas, _ib._ earnestness of, important, 453.

Present, considered as an annalist, 422 not long wonderful, 426.

President, slaveholding natural to, 424 must be a Southern resident, 439 must own a n.i.g.g.e.r, _ib._

Principle, exposure spoils it, 409.

Principles, bad, when less harmful, 401.

Prophecy, a notable one, 414.

Proviso, bitterly spoken of, 429.

Prudence, sister, her idiosyncratic teapot, 436.

Psammeticus, an experiment of, 394.

Public opinion, a blind and drunken guide, 401 nudges Mr. Wilbur's elbow, _ib._ ticklers of, 411.

Pythagoras a bean-hater, why, 432.

Pythagoreans, fish reverenced by, why, 416.

Q.

Quixote, Don, 417.

R.

Rag, one of sacred college, 401.

Rantoul, Mr., talks loudly, 396 pious reason for not enlisting, _ib._

Recruiting sergeant, Devil supposed the first, 393.

Representatives' Chamber, 416.

Rhinothism, society for promoting, 427.

Rhyme, whether natural _not_ considered, 393.

Rib, an infrangible one, 435.

Richard the First of England, his Christian fervor, 399.

Riches conjectured to have legs as well as wings, 420.

Robinson, Mr. John P., his opinions fully stated, 402-404.

Rocks, pocket full of, 436.

Rough and Ready, 446 a wig, 447 a kind of scratch, _ib._