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
nature flower heaven
Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
life stars heart
Not as all other women are Is she that to my soul is dear; Her glorious fancies come from far, Beneath the silver evening star, And yet her heart is ever near.
life humble love-is
True love is but a humble, low born thing, And hath its food served up in earthenware; It is a thing to walk with, hand in hand, Through the every-dayness of this workday world.
life men one-direction
Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.
giving charity three
Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.
freedom law wings
Freedom needs all her poets; it is they Who give her aspirations wings, And to the wiser law of music sway Her wild imaginings.
faith
He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned.
real men experience
The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.
inspirational angel guardian-angel
All God's angels come to us disguised.
happiness success character
Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
literature privilege doe
It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
giving literature return
Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
life death night
Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
beauty men soul
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.