James Russell Lowell Quotes About Angels

Quotes about: Angels

• All God's angels come to us disguised.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Angel, Guardian Angel

  James Russell Lowell (1861). “Poetical Works”, p.202

• Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

  James Russell Lowell

  Death, Angel, Dying

  James Russell Lowell (1861). “Poetical Works”, p.202

• 'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our firm feet planting, nearer God The spirit climbs, and hath its eyes unsealed. True it is that Death's face seems stern and cold When he is sent to summon those we love; But all God's angels come to us disguised; Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death, One after another, lift their frowning masks, And we behold the Seraph's face beneath, All radiant with the Glory and the calm Of having looked upon the front of God.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Eye, Angel

• An angel stood and met my gaze, Through the low doorway of my tent; The tent is struck, the vision stays; I only know she came and went.

  James Russell Lowell

  Angel, Vision, Doorways

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal”, p.225

• All that hath been majestical
  In life or death, since time began,
  Is native in the simple heart of all,
  The angel heat of man.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Character, Angel

• What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Eye, Angel

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.55

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