3 James Russell Lowell Quotes on Memory

James Russell Lowell quotes on memory

24. 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.

29. The child is not mine as the first was, I cannot sing it to rest, I cannot lift it up fatherly And bliss it upon my breast; Yet it lies in my little one's cradle And sits in my little one's chair, And the light of the heaven she's gone to Transfigures its golden hair.

71. Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.