 | James Russell Lowell - Literary Criticism - 1869 - 312 pages
...to hold, Luck hates the slow and loves the bold, Soon come the darkness and the cold. Greatly begin! though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime,—...failure, but low aim, is crime. Ah, with what lofty hope wo came 1 But we forget it, dream of fame, And scrawl, as I do here, a name. _ AL FRESCO. E dandelions... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1876 - 450 pages
...hold, Luck hates the slow and loves the bold, Soon come the darkness and the cold. Greatly begin ! though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime,...low aim, is crime. Ah, with what lofty hope we came J But we forget it, dream of fame, And scrawl, as I do here, a name. AL FRESCO. THE dandelions and... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1877 - 572 pages
...hold, Luck hates the slow and loves the hold, Soon come the darkness and the cold. Greatly begin ! though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime,...name. AL FRESCO. THE dandelions and buttercups Gild nil the lawn ; the drowsy bee Stumbles among the clover-tops, And summer sweetens all but me: Away,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1879 - 592 pages
...hates the slow and loves the hold, Soon come the darkness and the cold. Greatly begin ! though thon have time But for a line, be that sublime, — Not failure, but low aim, in crime. Ah, with what lofty hope we came ) But we forget it, dream of fame. And scrawl, as I do here,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1880 - 662 pages
...hold, Luck hates the slow and loves the bold, Soon come the darkness and the cold. Greatly begin ! though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime,...FRESCO. THE dandelions and buttercups Gild all the lav/ns the drowsy bee Stumbles among the elover-tops, And summer sweetens all but me : Away, unfruitful... | |
 | Almira Leach Hayward - Birthday books - 1880 - 300 pages
...paper white Whereon each one of us may write His word or two, and then comes night. Greatly begin ! though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime, — Not failure, but low aim, is crime. У. R. Lowell. October 9. She moved with recognition sweet, She bowed with courtesy calm and kind.... | |
 | American literature - 1880 - 208 pages
...paper white, Whereon each one of us may write His word or two, and then comes night. Greatly begin! Though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime,— Not failure, but low aim, is crime. —JR Lowell: "For an Autograph." XLII. SPEAK gently to the erring one—oh! do not thou forget, However... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1881 - 214 pages
...hold, Luck hates the slow and loves the bold, Soon come the darkness and the cold. Greatly begin ! though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime,...it, dream of fame, And scrawl, as I do here, a name. As a critic, Lowell has been more unsparing upon his own productions than upon the works of others.... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1881 - 222 pages
...hold, Luck hates the slow and Joves the bold, Soon come the darkness and the cold. Greatly begin ! though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime,...it, dream of fame, And scrawl, as I do here, a name. As a critic, Lowell has been more unsparing upon his own productions than upon the works of others.... | |
 | John Burroughs - Natural history - 1881 - 268 pages
...ont of the season when, in " Al Fresco," he makes it bloom with the buttercup and the clover : — "The dandelions and buttercups Gild all the lawn ;...the clover-tops, And summer sweetens all but me." Of course the dandelion blooms occasionally throughout the whole summer, especially where the grass... | |
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Greatly begin ! though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime, — Not failure, but low aim, is crime. 
