James Russell Lowell

(1819–1891) Poet United States

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James Russell Lowell was a poet from the United States, best known for Among my books.

Quick Facts About James Russell Lowell

Born: February 22, 1819
Died: August 12, 1891
Nationality: United States
Profession: Poet
Notable works: Among my books
Known for: The First Snowfall, The Fountain, The Heritage, To the Dandelion, Under the Old Elm
Spouse: Maria White Lowell

About James Russell Lowell

He is linked to the fireside poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets to rival British popularity. These poets used conventional forms and meters, making their verses easy for families to enjoy at home.

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Folks never understand the folks they hate.

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Stern men with empires in their brains.

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Brain

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Time makes ancient good uncouth.

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Ancient

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And what they dare to dream of, date to do.

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And blessed are the horny hands of toil.

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Blessed

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Borrowed garments never keep one warm.

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Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes.

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Heart

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A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes.

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Heart

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A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.

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Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

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Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best.

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Inspirational

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One day with life and heart Is more than time enough to find a world.

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Beauty hath no true glass, except it be in the sweet privacy of loving eyes.

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Beauty

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To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.

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As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath…

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Change

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Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye…

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Boast

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It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou…

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Atheism

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It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by…

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Book

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Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which will never happen.

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Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

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Action

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There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than…

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Ballast

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The flowers or weeds that spring up tomorrow are in the seeds we sow today. The foolish and the dead alone never…

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Flower

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Fashion being the art of those who must purchase notice at some cheaper rate than that of being beautiful, loves to do…

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Art

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Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed…

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Change

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The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with anothers need; Not what we give, but what we share, For…

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Alms

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Year by year, more and more of the world gets disenchanted. Even the icy privacy of the arctic and antarctic circles is…

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Arctic

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Making one object, in outward or inward nature, more holy to a single heart is reward enough for a life; for the…

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Beautiful

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Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and…

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Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek…

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Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of…

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Ancestry

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With every anguish of our earthly part The spirit's sight grows clearer.

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Anguish

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Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!

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Dark

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You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

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Guts

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Though old the thought and oft expressed, 'Tis his at last who says it best

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Thought

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...Long, sparkling aisles of steel-stemmed trees Bending to counterfeit a breeze...

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It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

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A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow.

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Annoyance

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“He chooses his language for its rich canorousness rather than for intensity of meaning.”

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Language

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Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it.

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In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.

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James Russell Lowell by topic

Men (75) Inspirational (40) Life (38) Time (35) Love (33) Heart (32) Truth (30) World (24) Nature (24) Soul (16) Poetry (16) Intelligence (16) Giving (16) Flower (16) Religion (14) Past (14) Genius (14)