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• T is heaven alone that is given away; 'T is only God may be had for the asking.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Vision of Sir Launfal, Prelude to Part Fi...
• Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Vision of Sir Launfal, Prelude to Part Fi...
• Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Vision of Sir Launfal, Prelude to Part Fi...
• And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect day
  Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays....
• Who gives himself with his alms feeds three,-- Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Vision of Sir Launfal, Part Second, viii...
• The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers, is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- My Study Windows, Abraham Lincoln, 1864...
• This child is not mine as the first was; I cannot sing it to re
  I cannot lift it up fatherly, And bless it upon my breast....
• Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Sonnet vi...
• But John P. Robinson, he Sez they did n't know everythin' down in Judee.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers, First Series, No. iii...