1. James Russell Lowell
William Lloyd Garrison

   “Some time afterward, it was reported to me by the city officers that they had ferreted out the paper and its editor; that his office was an obscure hole, his only visible auxiliary a negro boy, and his supporters a few very insignificant persons of all colors.”
—Letter of H. G. OTIS...

Poet: James Russell Lowell
The Grave-Yard

From “a Fable for Critics”
LET us glance for a moment, ’t is well worth the pains,
And note what an average grave-yard contains;
There lie levellers levelled, duns done up themselves,
There are booksellers finally laid on their shelves,
Horizontally there...

Poet: James Russell Lowell
American

From “a Fable for Critics”
THERE are truths you Americans need to be told,
And it never ’ll refute them to swagger and scold;
John Bull, looking o’er the Atlantic, in choler.
At your aptness for trade, says you worship the dollar;
But to scorn i-dollar-try...

Poet: James Russell Lowell
What Mr. Robinson Thinks

From “The Biglow Papers,” No. III.
GUVENER B. 1 is a sensible man;
  He stays to his home an’ looks arter his folks;
He draws his furrer ez straight ez he can,
  An’ into nobody’s tater-patch pokes;—
            But John P.
            Robinson he...

Poet: James Russell Lowell