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Lowell, James Russell
1819–91
1819–91
1
An' you've gut to git up airly
Ef you want to take in God.
There comes Poe with his raven like Barnaby Rudge,
Three-fifths of him genius, and two-fifths sheer fudge.
Blessèd are the horny hands of toil!
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side.
Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.
An' you've gut to git up airly
Ef you want to take in God.
The Biglow Papers
(First Series, 1848) no. 1 "A Letter"
There comes Poe with his raven like Barnaby Rudge,
Three-fifths of him genius, and two-fifths sheer fudge.
"A Fable for Critics" (1848) l. 1215.
Blessèd are the horny hands of toil!
"A Glance Behind the Curtain" (1844).
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side.
"The Present Crisis" (1845)
Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.
"The Present Crisis" (1845)
Lowell, Robert
1917–77
1917–77
1
Their monument sticks like a fishbone
in the city's throat.
These are the tranquillized
Fifties
,
and I am forty. Ought I to regret my seed-time?
At forty-five,
What next, what next?
At every corner,
I meet my Father,
my age, still alive.
This is death.
To die and know it. This is the Black Widow, death.
If we see light at the end of the tunnel,
It's the light of the oncoming train.
But I suppose even God was born
too late to trust the old religion.
the present, yes,
we are in it,
it's the infection
of things gone.
Their monument sticks like a fishbone
in the city's throat.
"For the Union Dead" (1964)
These are the tranquillized
Fifties
,
and I am forty. Ought I to regret my seed-time?
"Memories of West Street and Lepke" (1956)
At forty-five,
What next, what next?
At every corner,
I meet my Father,
my age, still alive.
"Middle Age" (1964)
This is death.
To die and know it. This is the Black Widow, death.
"Mr Edwards and the Spider" (1950)
If we see light at the end of the tunnel,
It's the light of the oncoming train.
"Since 1939" (1977).
But I suppose even God was born
too late to trust the old religion.
"Tenth Muse" (1964)
the present, yes,
we are in it,
it's the infection
of things gone.
"We Took Our Paradise" (1977)
Lowndes, William
1652–1724
1652–1724
1
Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.
Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.
Lord Chesterfield
Letters to his Son
(1774) 5 February 1750
Lowry, L. S.
1887–1976
1887–1976
1
I'm a simple man, and I use simple materials.
I'm a simple man, and I use simple materials.
Mervyn Levy
Paintings of L. S. Lowry
(1975)
Lowry, Malcolm
1909–57
1909–57
1
How alike are the groans of love to those of the dying.
How alike are the groans of love to those of the dying.
Under the Volcano
(1947) ch. 12
Lucan
ad
39–65
ad
39–65
1
There stands the ghost of a great name.
of Pompey
Thinking nothing done while anything remained to be done.
I have a wife, I have sons: we have given so many hostages to the fates.
There stands the ghost of a great name.
of Pompey
Pharsalia
bk. 1, l. 135
Thinking nothing done while anything remained to be done.
Pharsalia
bk. 2, l. 657.
I have a wife, I have sons: we have given so many hostages to the fates.
Pharsalia
bk. 6, l. 661.
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