The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.
James Russell LowellIf the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.
James Russell LowellSuddenly all the sky is hid As with the shutting of a lid, One by one great drops are falling Doubtful and slow, Down the pane they are crookedly crawling, And the wind breathes low; Slowly the circles widen on the river, Widen and mingle, one and all; Here and there the slenderer flowers shiver, Struck by an icy rain-drop’s fall.
James Russell Lowell