Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes - Page 26

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• All things are symbols.

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  Symbols, All Things

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

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Time, Morning, Fall

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

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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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• Thinking the deed, and not the creed, Would help us in our utmost need.

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  Thinking, Religion, Gardening

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.360, Library of America

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• The bells themselves are the best of preachers, Their brazen lips are learned teachers, From their pulpits of stone, in the upper air, Sounding aloft, without crack or flaw, Shriller than trumpets under the Law, Now a sermon and now a prayer.

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  Teacher, Prayer, Law

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.165

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• To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgment of others.

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  Cities, Tolerance, Towns

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Prose Works”, p.95

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• Books are sepulchres of thought.

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  Book

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Flower-de-luce and Three Books of Song”, p.25

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• All things are symbols: the external shows Of Nature have their image in the mind , As flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves.

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  Nature, Flower, Fall

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

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• They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again.

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  History, Earth, Walks

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1856). “Poetical Works by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Illustrated with Upwards of One Hundred and Sixty Engravings on Wood, from Designs by Jane E. Benham, Birket Foster, Etc”, p.203

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• History casts its shadow far into the land of song.

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  Song, Land, History

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1845). “The Poets and Poetry of Europe: With Introductions and Biographical Notices”, p.624

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• Dost thou know what a hero is? Why, a hero is as much as one should say, a hero.

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  Hero, Should, Knows

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.3

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• My designs and labors and aspirations are my only friends.

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  Friendship, Design, Aspiration

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.800, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The prayer of Ajax was for light.

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  Prayer, Ajax, Light

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.40

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• Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great.

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  Strong, America, Unions

  "The Building of the Ship" l. 378 (1849)

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• The warriors that fought for their country, and bled, Have sunk to their rest; the damp earth is their bed; No stone tells the place where their ashes repose, Nor points out the spot from the graves of their foes. They died in their glory, surrounded by fame, And Victory's loud trump their death did proclaim; They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.

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  Country, Warrior, Names

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Horace Elisha Scudder (1922). “The Complete Poetical Works of Longfellow”

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• Our ingress into the world Was naked and bare; Our progress through the world Is trouble and care.

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  Progress, Naked, World

  1872 Tales of aWayside Inn, pt.2,'The Student's Tale: The Cobbler of Hagenau'.

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