Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.
James Russell LowellLife may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.
James Russell LowellA weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
James Russell LowellHow I do love the earth. I feel it thrill under my feet. I feel somehow as if it were conscious of my love, as if something passed into my dancing blood from it.
James Russell LowellDeath is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
James Russell LowellNow on the hills I hear the thunder mutter... Nearer and nearer rolls the thunder-clap, - You can hear the quick heart of the tempest beat.... Look! look! that livid flash! And instantly follows the rattling thunder, As if some cloud-crag, split asunder, Fell, splintering with a ruinous crash, On the Earth, which crouches in silence under; And now a solid gray wall of rain Shuts off the landscape, mile by mile.
James Russell Lowell