James Russell Lowell Quotes

All kin' o' smily round the lips,
An' teary round the lashes.

He stood a spell on one foot fust
Then stood a spell on t' other,
An' on which one he felt the wust
He could n't ha' told ye nuther.

To say why gals acts so or so,
Or don't, 'ould be persumin';
Mebby to mean yes an' say no
Comes nateral to women.

His heart kep' goin' pity-pat,
But hern went pity-Zekle.

She thought no v'ice hed sech a swing
Ez hisn in the choir;
My! when he made Ole Hunderd ring
She knowed the Lord was nigher.

'T was kin' o' kingdom-come to look On sech a blessed cretur.

The very room, coz she was in,
Seemed warm from floor to ceilin' ''

Zekle crep' up quite unbeknown
An' peeked in thru' the winder,
An there sot Huldy all alone,
'ith no one nigh to hender.

God makes sech nights, all white an' still,
Fur'z you can look or listen,
Moonshine an' snow on field an' hill,
All silence an' all glisten.

Ez to my princerples, I glory
In hevin' nothin' o' the sort.

Of my merit
On thet pint you yourself may jedge;
All is, I never drink no sperit,
Nor I haint never signed no pledge.

It ain't by princerples nor men
My preudunt course is steadied—
I scent wich pays the best, an' then
Go into it baldheaded.

I don't believe in princerple,
But oh I du in interest.

I du believe with all my soul
In the gret Press's freedom,
To pint the people to the goal
An' in the traces lead 'em.

A marciful Providunce fashioned us holler
O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller.