Hush! Still as death, The tempest holds his breath As from a sudden will; The rain stops short, but from the eaves You see it drop, and hear it from the leaves, All is so bodingly still.
James Russell LowellThere is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
James Russell LowellOur American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.
James Russell Lowell