Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes - Page 26

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• The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls
  Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls;
  The day returns, but nevermore
  Returns the traveler to the shore,
  And the tide rises, the tide falls.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Morning, Fall

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1899). “the Compelete Poetical Works”

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• The swallow is come! The swallow is come! O, fair are the seasons, and light Are the days that she brings, With her dusky wings, And her bosom snowy white!

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  Light, Wings, White

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1885, Delphi Classics

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• Gone are the birds that were our summer guests.

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  Summer, Bird, Gone

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.852, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The nimble lie
  Is like the second-hand upon a clock;
  We see it fly; while the hour-hand of truth
  Seems to stand still, and yet it moves unseen,
  And wins, at last, for the clock will not strike
  Till it has reached the goal.

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  Truth, Lying, Moving

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.137, Wildside Press LLC

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• O lovely river of Yvette!
  O darling river! like a bride,
  Some dimpled, bashful, fair Lisette
  Thou goest to wed the Orge's tide.
  O lovely river Yvette!
  O darling stream! on balanced wings
  The wood-birds sang the chansonnette
  That here a wandering poet sings.

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  Wings, Rivers, Bird

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1883). “Longfellow's Poetical Works: With 83 Illustrations by Sir John Gilbert, R.A., and Other Artists”

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• Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry.

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  Time, Glasses, Church

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Prose Works”, p.171

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• Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.

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  Ballads, Said

  'Children' (1849)

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• The foods that prolong life and increase purity, vigour, health, cheerfulness, and happiness are those that are delicious, soothing, substantial and agreeable... Foods that are bitter, sour, salt, over-hot, pungent, dry and burning produce unhappiness, repentance and disease.

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  Hot, Burning, Dry

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• Where, twisted round the barren oak,
  The summer vine in beauty clung,
  And summer winds the stillness broke,
  The crystal icicle is hung.

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  Summer, Winter, Wind

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.8

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• Down sank the great red sun, and in golden, glimmering vapors Veiled the light of his face, like the Prophet descending from Sinai.

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  Sunset, Light, Red

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.146

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• By the shores of Gitchee Gumee,
  By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
  Stood the wigwam of Nokomis,
  Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis,
  Dark behind it rose the forest,
  Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees,
  Rose the firs with cones upon them;
  Bright before it beat the water,
  Beat the clear and sunny water,
  Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.

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  Daughter, Dark, Moon

  'The Song of Hiawatha' (1855) 'Hiawatha's Childhood'

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• The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

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  Gains, Rapture, Prize

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.858, Delphi Classics

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• All things come round to him who will but wait.

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  Patience, Waiting, All Things

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edwin Edwards (1871). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Edited, with a Critical Memoir, by W. M. Rossetti. Illustrated ... by E. Edwards”, p.317

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• Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

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  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.97

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• A sermon is no sermon in which I cannot hear the heartbeat.

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  Heart, Heartbeat, Sermons

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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• This song of mine
  Is a song of the vine
  To be sung by the glowing embers
  Of wayside inns,
  When the rain begins
  To darken the drear Novembers. and
  For the richest and best
  Is the wind of the West
  That grows by the Beautiful River;
  Whose sweet perfume
  Fills all the room
  With a bension on the giver. and
  When you ask one friend to dine,
  Give hime your best wine!
  When you ask two,
  The second best will do.

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  Beautiful, Song, Sweet

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• The air is full of farewells to the dying. And mournings for the dead.

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  Farewell, Air, Mourning

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.133

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• Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

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  Army, Challenges, Criticism

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

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• I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand, And the brown rocks left bare on every hand, As if the ebbing tide would flow no more.

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  Weed, Rocks, Hands

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.930, Delphi Classics

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• The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

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  Literature, Mercy, Firmness

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1324, Delphi Classics

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• Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

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  Life, Art, Long

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 4 (1838)

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• Out of the shadows of night
  The world rolls into light.

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  Night, Light, World

  "In the harbor. Part II: Ultima Thule" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1882.

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• A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood.

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  Noble, Heroic, Type

  "Santa Filomena" st. 10 (1858).

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• Death is better than disease.

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  Death, Disease

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.148

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• Look, then, into thine heart, and write! Yes, into Life's deep stream! All forms of sorrow and delight, All solemn Voices of the Night, That can soothe thee, or affright, - Be these henceforth thy theme. (excerpt from "Voices of the Night")

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  Writing, Heart, Night

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Voices Of The Night: Prelude”

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