James Russell Lowell on Mother's Day
1819–1891 United States
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Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
Literary Essays, vol. II (1870)
That love for one, from which there doth not spring
Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.
* A woman's love
Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak,
And by its weakness overcomes.
True love is but a humble, low born thing,
And hath its food served up in earthenware;
It is a thing to walk with, hand in hand,
Through the every-dayness of this workday world.
Not as all other women are
Is she that to my soul is dear;
Her glorious fancies come from far,
Beneath the silver evening star,
And yet her heart is ever near.