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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• Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide. Decide
• O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change. Abiding
• A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by. Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me, For Christ's sweet sake… Beggar
• It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood. Cheerfulness
• What means this glory round our feet, The Magi mused, "more bright than morn!" And voices chanted clear and sweet, "To-day the Prince of Peace… Born
• And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of… All
• My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know. Crow
• He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery Than… African
• The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment. Desire
• The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints… Age
• Humbleness is always grace; always dignity Always Grace
• O chime of sweet Saint Charity, Peal soon that Easter morn When Christ for all shall risen be, And in all hearts new-born! That Pentecost… All
• Fanaticism, or, to call it by its milder name, enthusiasm, is only powerful and active so long as it is aggressive. Establish it firmly in… Active
• Tiny Salmoneus of the air His mimic bolts the firefly threw. Air
• The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go. Fireflies
• The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human, It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman. All
• This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur. Agreeable
• Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then Afar
• A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes. Heart
• For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions. Best
• The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds… All
• New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth. Abreast
• Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own. Behind
• All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious race that had ever lived… Ablest
• In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim. All

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