James Russell Lowell Quotes - Page 12

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• 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 rumbling And crashing and crumbling.

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  Blue, Weather, Tears

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell: Complete in Two Volumes”, p.19

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• 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.... Look! look! that livid flash! And instantly follows the rattling thunder, As if some cloud-crag, split asunder, Fell, splintering with a ruinous crash, On the Earth, which crouches in silence under; And now a solid gray wall of rain Shuts off the landscape, mile by mile.

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  Wall, Rain, Heart

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• It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.

  James Russell Lowell

  Song, Spring, Gun

  James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett Hale (1902). “Early prose writings of James Russell Lowell”

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• 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 pane they are crookedly crawling, And the wind breathes low; Slowly the circles widen on the river, Widen and mingle, one and all; Here and there the slenderer flowers shiver, Struck by an icy rain-drop’s fall.

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  Rain, Flower, Fall

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.7

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• The victory's in believing.

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  Believe, Victory, Belief

  James Russell Lowell (1898). “Poems of James Russell Lowell With Biographical Sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole”, p.323, Library of Alexandria

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• And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.

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  Light, Choices, Forever

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.66

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• Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?

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  Forgiveness, Men, Forgiving

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.712, Delphi Classics

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• In the storm, like a prophet o'ermaddened, Thou singest and tossest thy branches; Thy heart with the terror is gladdened, Thou forebodest the dread avalanches.... In the calm thou o'erstretchest the valleys With thine arms, as if blessings imploring, Like an old king led forth from his palace, When his people to battle are pouring.

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  Kings, Heart, Blessing

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.176, Delphi Classics

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• The idol is the measure of the worshipper.

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  Idols, Idolatry, Worshippers

  James Russell Lowell (1889). “Books and Libraries: Democracy and Other Papers”

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• We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.

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  War, Kind, Christ

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.191

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• Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene, and down the future saw the golden beam incline To the side of perfect justice, mastered by their faith divine, By one man's plain truth to manhood and to God's supreme design.

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  Hero, Men, Perfect

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.66

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• The one thing finished in this hasty world.

  James Russell Lowell

  World, Hasty, Finished

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.771, Delphi Classics

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• 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 drop, and hear it from the leaves, All is so bodingly still.

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  Rain, Weather, Tempest

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.45, Delphi Classics

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• In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.

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  Science, Age, Latter

  "Literary essays; Among my books, My study windows, Fireside travels".

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• It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.

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  Lasts, Sunny, Mood

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal”, p.61

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• 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 and charity.

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  Sweet, World, Charity

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.40, Delphi Classics

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• Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary.

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  Summer, Snow, Mind

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.252

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• Making one object, in outward or inward nature, more holy to a single heart is reward enough for a life; for the more sympathies we gain or awaken for what is beautiful, by so much deeper will be our sympathy for that which is most beautiful,--the human soul!

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  Beautiful, Heart, Soul

  James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”

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• Love lives on, and hath a power to bless when they who loved are hidden in the grave.

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  Love, Love Life, Bless

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.105

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• Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.

  James Russell Lowell

  Criticism, Moral, Teach

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.97

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• It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.

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  Men, Doe, May

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.595, Delphi Classics

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• What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!

  James Russell Lowell

  Time, Book, Reading

  "Literary Essays, vol. I". Book by James Russell Lowell, 1864-1890.

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• Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.

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  Giving, Three, Charity

  James Russell Lowell (2012). “The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations”, p.46, tredition

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• Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.

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  Life, Destiny, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books”, p.234

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• Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm blue sky with its motherly, rebuking face. She is the great reformer, and where the love of her is strong and healthy, wickedness and wrong cannot long prevail.

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  Strong, Blue, Sky

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.138

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