James Russell Lowell Quotes About Death

Quotes about: Death

• But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

  James Russell Lowell

  Beautiful, Death, Sweet

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.861, Delphi Classics

• 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

• Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Death, Night

• The realm of death seems an enemy's country to most men, on whose shores they are loathly driven by stress of weather; to the wise man it is the desired port where he moors his bark gladly, as in some quiet haven of the Fortunate Isles; it is the golden west into which his sun sinks, and, sinking, casts back a glory upon the leaden cloud-tack which had darkly besieged his day.

  James Russell Lowell

  Death, Wise, Country

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.111

• We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.

  James Russell Lowell

  Death, Believe, Glasses

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