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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Maria (White) Lowell (1821–1853)

Lowell, Maria (White). An American writer of prose and verse, wife of James Russell Lowell; born in Watertown, MA, July 8, 1821; died in Cambridge, MA, Oct. 27, 1853. The best known of her poems are: ‘The Alpine Shepherd’ and ‘The Morning Glory.’ The death of Mrs. Lowell, occurring the same night that a child was born to Mr. Longfellow, called forth his poem beginning

  • “Two angels, one of life and one of death,
  • Passed o’er our village as the morning broke.”