James Russell Lowell ✓

(1819–1891) poet United States

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[Wikipedia] James Russell Lowell was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the fireside poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets to rival the popularity of British poets. These writers usually used conventional forms and meters in the

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• In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the latter poetry has become science. Accounts
• No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those… Always Work
• The one thing finished in this hasty world. Finished
• Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary. Hid
• The idol is the measure of the worshipper. Funny
• Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame; Ev'y thin' thet' s done inhuman Injers all on 'em the same. All
• Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected. Earth
• Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one. Fantasies
• The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools. Fill
• These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon; The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald… Bed
• Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it would not be… Country
• ...Long, sparkling aisles of steel-stemmed trees Bending to counterfeit a breeze... Aisles
• For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth. Earnest
• Suddenly all the sky is hid As with the shutting of a lid, One by one great drops are falling Doubtful and slow, Down the… All
• Now on the hills I hear the thunder mutter... Nearer and nearer rolls the thunder-clap,— You can hear the quick heart of the tempest beat....… Asunder
• Against the windows the storm comes dashing, Through tattered foliage the hail tears crashing, The blue lightning flashes, The rapid hail clashes... The thunder is… Blue
• Hush! Still as death, The tempest holds his breath As from a sudden will; The rain stops short, but from the eaves You see it… All
• Again, now, now, again Plashes the rain in heavy gouts, The crinkled lightning Seems ever brightening... And loud and long Again the thunder shouts His… Battle
• There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds. Alone
• Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath his fee who… Alone
• Over our manhood bend the skies; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies; With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its… Age
• My soul is not a palace of the past... Inspirational
• [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. Always Becomes
• The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; Then let it come: I have no dread of what Is called for by the instinct of… Apart
• Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it, We are happy now because God so wills it; No matter how barren the… Barren

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