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• The star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast, Serene, and resolute, and still, And calm, and self-possessed.

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  Stars, Self, Calm

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.9

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• Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted; If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

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  Love, Spring, Rain

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.88, Library of America

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• The bravest are the tenderest.

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  "The Poetical Works of Bayard Taylor" by Bayard Taylor, "The Song of the Camp", (p. 86), 1907.

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• I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star. Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady lambent light, are luminous, but not sparkling.

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  Beautiful, Stars, Eye

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Prose Works”, p.112

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• Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

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  Art, Architecture, Architect

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.29, Wildside Press LLC

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• The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air.

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  Morning, Air, Pouring

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1912). “The complete poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.1714, Library of Alexandria

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• Prayer is innocence's friend; and willingly flieth incessant 'twist the earth and the sky, the carrier-pigeon of heaven.

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  Prayer, Sky, Heaven

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sir John Gilbert (1858). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow ... A Complete Edition, Including the Song of Hiawatha. With Illustrations by J. Gilbert, Etc”, p.73

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• Into each life some rain must fall.

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  Life, Rain, Fall

  "The Rainy Day" st. 3 (1842)

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• Balder the Beautiful
  Is dead, is dead!

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  Beautiful

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1862). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Eight Engravings on Steel”, p.179

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• No action, whether foul or fair, Is ever done, but it leaves somewhere A record, written by fingers ghostly, As a blessing or a curse, and mostly In the greater weakness or greater strength Of the acts which follow it.

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  Blessing, Weakness, Done

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.160

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• The country is lyric, the town dramatic. When mingled, they make the most perfect musical drama.

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  Country, Drama, Perfect

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.430

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• There is nothing perfectly secure but poverty.

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  Poverty, Secure

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1983). “The Letters of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.615, Harvard University Press

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• How like they are to human things!

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  Flower, Humans

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• The country is not priest-ridded, but press-ridden.

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  Country, Priests, Presses

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• No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.

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  Sweet, Nature, Tears

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1869). “The Poetical Works”, p.19

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• The motives and purposes of authors are not always so pure and high, as, in the enthusiasm of youth, we sometimes imagine. To many the trumpet of fame is nothing but a tin horn to call them home, like laborers from, the field, at dinner-time, and they think themselves lucky to get the dinner.

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  Home, Thinking, Enthusiasm

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Kavanagh (Annotated Edition)”, p.46, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, a shadow on those features fair and thin. And softly, from the hushed and darkened room, two angels issued, where but one went in.

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  Death, Angel, Two

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Author's complete ed”, p.461

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• We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.

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  Heaven, Lamps, May

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.134

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• If the great Captain of Plymouth is so very eager to wed me, Why does he not come himself, and take the trouble to woo me? If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!

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  Winning, Doe, Plymouth

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Favorite Poems”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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• O ye dead Poets, who are living still Immortal in your verse, though life be fled, And ye, O living Poets, who are dead Though ye are living, if neglect can kill, Tell me if in the darkest hours of ill, With drops of anguish falling fast and red From the sharp crown of thorns upon your head, Ye were not glad your errand to fulfill?

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  Fall, Crowns, Errands

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Favorite Poems”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• Then from the neighboring thicket the mocking-bird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water, Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music, That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen.

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  Air, Water, Bird

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.49, Penguin

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• O flower-de-luce, bloom on, and let the river Linger to kiss thy feet! O flower of song, bloom on, and make forever The world more fair and sweet.

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  Song, Sweet, Flower

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Flower-de-luce and Three Books of Song...”, p.10

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• Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!

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  Rivers, Feet, Childhood

  'Michael Angelo' (1883) pt. 1, sect. 5

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• White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting Shadows of the palaces and strips of sky.

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  Swans, Sky, Cities

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1912). “The complete poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.1218, Library of Alexandria

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• Nothing useless is, or low; Each thing in its place is best; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest.

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  Support, Useless, Lows

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

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