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James Russell Lowell was an influential American poet and critic. This illustrated volume presents his extensive body of work, showcasing his contributions to the literary landscape of his time.
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“O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“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.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)
“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 is born.”
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“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 human race.”
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“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 crushing His African children with slavery, Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion, Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows, Approaches the heart through the door of the toes.”
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“Tiny Salmoneus of the air His mimic bolts the firefly threw.”
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“Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than an oak or a pine.”
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“Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears; Are they wet Even yet With the thought of other years?”
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“Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness.”
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“The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building.”
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“Ye come and go incessant; we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past; Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot, Of faith so nobly realized as this.”
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“For Humanity sweeps onward: where today the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands; Far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn.”
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“Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.”
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“Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!”
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“Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.”
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“There is something solid and doughty in the man that can rise from defeat, the stuff of which victories are made in due time, when we are able to choose our position better, and the sun is at our back.”
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“It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.”
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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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“God is not dumb, that he should speak no more;
If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness
And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor.”
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“Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek for sensual proof of supersensual things. If one came from the dead it could not believe; and yet it longs for such a witness, and will put up with a very dubious one.”
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“God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs.”
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“All birds during the pairing season become more or less sentimental, and murmur soft nothings in a tone very unlike the grinding-organ repetition and loudness of their habitual song. The crow is very comical as a lover; and to hear him trying to soften his croak to the proper Saint-Preux standard has something the effect of a Mississippi boatman quoting Tennyson.”
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“The purely Great
Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere,
Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.”
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“No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.”
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“Fate loves the fearless.”
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“A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.”
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“The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.”
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“Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.”
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“The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.”
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“Folks never understand the folks they hate.”
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“The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.”
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“There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.”
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“At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.”
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“A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.”
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“The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.”
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“He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty.”
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“There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.”
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“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.”
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“Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best.”
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“It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.”
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“I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.”
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“Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.”
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“Wut 's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal; Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the gret prize o' death in battle?”
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“Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul, An' risen up earth's greatest nation.”
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“The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.”
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“From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature.”
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“There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.”
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“The one thing finished in this hasty world.”
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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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“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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