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
lying heaven soul
Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.
country soul earth
Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul, An' risen up earth's greatest nation.
nurse soul solitude
The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.
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.
heart soul genius
There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.
men soul eternity
Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.
dumb soul religion
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.
passion fate soul
The purely Great Whose soul no siren passion could unsphere, Thou nameless, now a power and mixed with fate.
beautiful heart soul
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!
kings men soul
What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.
past soul palaces
My soul is not a palace of the past...
education knowledge desire
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
brave literature weak
Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.
form government man
Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.