No man, I suspect, ever lived long in the country without being bitten by these meteorological ambitions. He likes to be hotter… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Here come the hum the golden bees Underneath full blossomed trees, At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
...Long, sparkling aisles of steel-stemmed trees Bending to counterfeit a breeze... — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,--so… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
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