I love her with a love as still As a broad river's peaceful might, Which by high tower and lowly mill, Goes wandering at its own will, And yet does ever flow aright. (James Russell Lowell)
Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary. (James Russell Lowell)
Zekle crep' up quite unbeknown An' peeked in thru' the winder, An' there sot Huldy all alone, 'Ith no one nigh to hender. (James Russell Lowell)
These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread. (James Russell Lowell)
Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime. (James Russell Lowell)
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. (James Russell Lowell)
Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light. (James Russell Lowell)