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Quotation by James Russell Lowell
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A Fable for CriticsA Glance Behind the Curtains (1844)"A Library of Old Authors" My Study Windows (1871)Among My Books Second Series (1876)"An Interview with Miles Standish"Related Subjects
"There is Lowell, who's striving Parnassus to climb
With a whole bale of isms tied together with rhyme,
He might get on alone, spite of brambles and boulders,
But he can't with that bundle he has on his shoulders,
The top of the hill he will ne'er come nigh reaching
Till he learns the distinction 'twixt singing and preaching;
With a whole bale of isms tied together with rhyme,
He might get on alone, spite of brambles and boulders,
But he can't with that bundle he has on his shoulders,
The top of the hill he will ne'er come nigh reaching
Till he learns the distinction 'twixt singing and preaching;
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891), U.S. poet. A Fable for Critics. . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.
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