James Russell Lowell on Easter
1819–1891 United States
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All thoughts that mould the age begin
Deep down within the primitive soul.
Poems (1844)
The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.
Poems: Second Series (1848)
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.
Abraham Lincoln (1864)
Ye come and go incessant; we remain
Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past;
Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot,
Of faith so nobly realized as this.
The Cathedral (1870)
O thou, whose days are yet all spring,
Faith, blighted once, is past retrieving;
Experience is a dumb, dead thing;
The victory's in believing.
They believed—faith, I'm puzzled—I think I may call
Their belief a believing in nothing at all,
Or something of that sort; I know they all went
For a general union of total dissent.
Fable for Critics (1848)