James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowellwas 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 who rivaled the popularity of British poets. These poets usually used conventional forms and meters in their poetry, making them suitable for families entertaining at their fireside...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth22 February 1819
CountryUnited States of America
tests deities analysis
Analysis is carried into everything. Even Deity is subjected to chemical tests.
thinking two hatred
They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
heart blue sky
Tis easy now for the heart to be true As for grass to be green or skies to be blue-- 'Tis the natural way of living.
men feelings phrases
Men's thoughts and opinions are in a great degree vassals of him who invents a new phrase or re-applies an old epithet. The thought or feeling a thousand times repeated becomes his at last who utters it best.
fame deserve
Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it.
sweet fate love-is
Fate loves best such syllables as are sweet and sonorous on the tongue.
hero slave easy
Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves.
men
He's true to God who's true to man.
real spring wind
May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind.
profound common-sense genius
A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.
temptation philosopher metaphysics
One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
loss race gains
In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.
brave simplicity ridiculous
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.
order police mind
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.