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• Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river, Motionless the sleeping shadows.

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  Summer, Sleep, Rivers

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.241

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• The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

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  Death, Past, Sea

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.1688, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Ah! What would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

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  Children, Dark, Desert

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.285

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• What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps.

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  Memorial, Funeral, Heaven

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• The sunshine fails, the shadows grow more dreary,
  And I am near to fall, infirm and weary.

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  Fall, Sunshine, Shadow

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.353, Wildside Press LLC

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• Ah me! what wonder-working, occult science Can from the ashes in our hearts once more The rose of youth restore? What craft of alchemy can bid defiance To time and change, and for a single hour Renew this phantom-flower?

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  Flower, Heart, Rose

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (185?). “The Poetical Works of Henry W. Longfellow”, p.503

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• Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return. Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn.

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  Sympathy, Good Night, Condolences

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.922, Delphi Classics

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• But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise.

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  Dark, Assuming, Assumption

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.134

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• The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and stain from the lees of the vat.

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  Crush, Heart, Wine

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.455

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• Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest!

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  Love, Time, Retirement

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1847). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Complete in One Volume”, p.49

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• The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.

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  Names, Ideas, Silence

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.888, Jazzybee Verlag

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• There rises the moon, broad and tranquil, through the branches of a walnut tree on a hill opposite. I apostrophize it in the words of Faust; "O gentle moon, that lookest for the last time upon my agonies!" --or something to that effect.

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  Moon, Opposites, Agony

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1967). “The Letters of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Volume I-II: 1814-1843”, p.469, Harvard University Press

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• Time rides with the old
  At a great pace. As travellers on swift steeds
  See the near landscape fly and flow behind them,
  While the remoter fields and dim horizons
  Go with them, and seem wheeling round to meet them,
  So in old age things near us slip away,
  And distant things go with us.

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  Time, Age, Horizon

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1525, Delphi Classics

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• Winter giveth the fields, and the trees so old,
  their beards of icicles and snow.

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  Winter, Snow, Tree

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1866). “Outre-mer”, p.121

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• O little feet! that such long years Must wander on through hopes and fears, Must ache and bleed beneath your load; I, nearer to the wayside inn Where toil shall cease and rest begin, Am weary, thinking of your road!

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  Sad, Thinking Of You, Feet

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1864). “Tales of a Wayside Inn”, p.224

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• Simplicity is the character of the spring of life, costliness becomes its autumn; but a neatness and purity, like that of the snow-drop or lily of the valley, is the peculiar fascination of beauty, to which it lends enchantment, and gives what amiability is to the mind.

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  Spring, Character, Autumn

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• Thus thought I, as by night I read Of the great army of the dead, The trenches cold and damp, The starved and frozen camp,-- The wounded from the battle-plain, In dreary hospitals of pain, The cheerless corridors, The cold and stony floors. Lo! in that house of misery A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering gloom And flit from room to room. And slow, as in a dream of bliss, The speechless sufferer turns to kiss Her shadow, as it falls Upon the darkening walls.

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  Dream, Wall, Pain

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.283

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• Two ways the rivers Leap down to different seas, and as they roll Grow deep and still, and their majestic presence Becomes a benefaction to the towns They visit, wandering silently among them, Like patriarchs old among their shining tents.

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  Sea, Two, Rivers

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.185

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• Take them, O Death! and bear away Whatever thou canst call thine own! Thine image, stamped upon this clay, Doth give thee that, but that alone!

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  Sad, Giving, Clay

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.139

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• Maiden, that read'st this simple rhyme, Enjoy thy youth, it will not stay; Enjoy the fragrance of thy prime, For oh, it is not always May!

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  Simple, May, Youth

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.216

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• No one is so accursed by fate, no one so utterly desolate, but some heart though unknown responds unto his own.

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  Heart, Fate, Destiny

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.49

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• Work is my recreation,
  The play of faculty; a delight like that
  Which a bird feels in flying, or a fish
  In darting through the water,--Nothing more.

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  Work, Play, Water

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.88, Wildside Press LLC

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• Think of your woods and orchards without birds! Of empty nests that cling to boughs and beams As in an idiot's brain remembered words Hang empty 'mid the cobwebs of his dreams!

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  Dream, Thinking, Bird

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.743, Delphi Classics

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• Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, And that is Sculpture. This vast ball, the Earth, Was moulded out of clay, and baked in fire; Men, women, and all animals that breathe Are statues, and not paintings.

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  Fashion, Animal, Men

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1578, Delphi Classics

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• Something the heart must have to cherish, Must love and joy and sorrow learn; Something with passion clasp, or perish And in itself to ashes burn.

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  Passion, Learning, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.289, Wildside Press LLC

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