James Russell
James Russell
Left-handed relief pitcher known for an average fastball and good slider who made his MLB debut in 2010 for the Chicago Cubs.
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth8 January 1986
CityCincinnati, OH
love rivers peaceful
I love her with a love as still As a broad river's peaceful might, Which by high tower and lowly mill, Goes wandering at its own will, And yet does ever flow aright.
truth forever thrones
Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.
happiness heart gods-will
Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it.
age needs poet
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity
time queens brain
Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the "Faery Queen."
stars writing sight
It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century.
lying heaven soul
Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.
night white snow
The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.
country soul earth
Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul, An' risen up earth's greatest nation.
believe heaven i-believe
Heaven is neither here nor there to me. Everywhere and nowhere. Just not in between, But I believe in Heaven.
past towers looks
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.
sides argument aspiration
Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.
blessed hands horny
And blessed are the horny hands of toil.
self sensual life-is
There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual