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
lasts mood sunny
It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.
christmas sweet mean
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.
race two toil
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.
crow prophecy grans
My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.
squares atmosphere public-opinion
The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.
onward-and-upward progress ancient
New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.
shadow breaking-silence watches
Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
government race world
All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious race that had ever lived in it
song spring gun
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.
believe curiosity principles
I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.
men soil buried
The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.
men citizens made
Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.
men race faces
Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face.
memories giving perception
He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory.