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The Street

They pass me by like shadows, crowds on crowds,

Dim ghosts of men that hover to and fro,

Hugging their bodies round them, like thin

Wherein their souls were buried long ago:

They trampled on their youth, and faith, and love,

They cast their hope of human-kind away,

With Heaven's clear messages they madly strove,

And conquered,—and their spirits turned to clay.

Lo! how they wander round the world, their grave,

Whose ever-gaping maw by such is fed,

Gibbering at living men, and idly rave,"We, only, truly live, but ye are dead."Alas! poor fools, the anointed eye may traceA dead soul's epitaph in every face!

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James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell (/ˈloʊəl/; February 22, 1819 – August 12, 1891) was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associat…
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