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• It is folly to pretend that one ever wholly recovers from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. There are faces I can never look upon without emotion, there are names I can never hear spoken without almost starting.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Disappointment, Passion, Names

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1892, Delphi Classics

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• And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.

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  Noble, Wrecks, Immortality

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.188

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• The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Adversity

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

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• How can I teach your children gentleness and mercy to the weak, and reverence for life, which in its nakedness and excess, is still a gleam of God's omnipotence, when by your laws, your actions and your speech, you contradict the very things I teach?

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Children, Law, Omnipotence

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• Thus at the flaming forge of life
  Our fortunes must be wrought;
  Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
  Each burning deed and thought!

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  Life, Burning, Deeds

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.37

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• The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces!

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  Book, Tongue, Faces

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works”, p.191

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• Every author has the whole past to contend with; all the centuries are upon him. He is compared with Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton.

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  Writing, Past, Milton

  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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• So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest so gently, that we go, Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay, Being too full of sleep to understand How far the unknown transcends the what we know.

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  Nature, Sleep, Hands

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.848, Jazzybee Verlag

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• When you ask one friend to dine, Give him your best wine! When you ask two, The second best will do!

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  Wine, Two, Giving

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1887). “Final Memorials of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”

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• The Wreck of the Hesperus But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he.

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  Father, Frozen, Wrecks

  'The Wreck of the Hesperus' (1839)

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• Nor deem the irrevocable Past
  As wholly wasted, wholly vain,
  If, rising on its wrecks, at last
  To something nobler we attain.

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  Past, Rising, Wrecks

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.326, Library of America

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• The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature -were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature.

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  Nature, Men, Law

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.452

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• Ne speaketh not; and yet there lies a conversation in his eyes.

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  Loyalty, Lying, Eye

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Hanging Of The Crane”

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• I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.

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  Love, Time, Twilight

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855). “The Works: Kavanagh. Outre-Mer”, p.164

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• As a fond mother, when the day is o'er, Leads by the hand her little child to bed, Half willing, half reluctant to be led, And leave his broken playthings on the floor. Still gazing at them through the open door, Nor wholly reassured and comforted By promises of others in their stead Which, the more splendid, may not please him more; So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest so gently, that we go Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay, Being too full of sleep to understand How far the unknown transcends the what we know.

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  Mother, Children, Sleep

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.322, Penguin

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• The history of the past is a mere puppet-show. A little man comes out and blows a little trumpet, and goes in again. You look for something new, and lo! another little man comes out, and blows another little trumpet, and goes in again. And it is all over.

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  Men, Blow, Past

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1886). “The Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Outre Mer and Driftwood”

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• There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of richest dyes, Pouring new glory on the autumn woods, And dipping in warm light the pillared clouds. Morn on the mountain, like a summer bird, Lifts up her purple wing, and in the vales The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer, Kisses the blushing leaf, and stirs up life Within the solemn woods of ash deep-crimsoned, And silver beech, and maple yellow-leaved, Where Autumn, like a faint old man, sits down By the wayside a-weary.

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  Beautiful, Summer, Sweet

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.70, Delphi Classics

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• Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start.

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  Summer, Song, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.108

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• The spirit-world around this world of sense
  Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere
  Wafts through these earthly mists and vapours dense
  A vital breath of more ethereal air.

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  Halloween, Kids, Air

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A New Complete Edition, Including Miles Standish and Other Poems”, p.628

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• O beautiful, awful summer day, what hast thou given, what taken away?

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  Beautiful, Summer, Taken

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1057, Delphi Classics

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• Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a summer rain, Still keeps their graves and their remembrance green.

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  Life, Summer, Tombstone

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works”, p.607

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• God sent his Singers upon earth
  With songs of sadness and of mirth,
  That they might touch the hearts of men,
  And bring them back to heaven again.

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  Song, Heart, Sadness

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.138

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• Men should soon make up their minds to be forgotten, and look about them, or within them, for some higher motive in what they do than the approbation of men, which is fame, namely, their duty; that they should be constantly and quietly at work, each in his sphere, regardless of effects, and leaving their fame to take care of itself.

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  Men, Leaving, Mind

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.38

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• In what a forge and what a heat were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock; 'Tis of the wave and not the rock.

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  Angel, Rocks, Anchors

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.130

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• After a day of cloud and wind and rain Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again, And touching all the darksome woods with light, Smiles on the fields until they laugh and sing, Then like a ruby from the horizon's ring, Drops down into the night.

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  Rain, Sunset, Night

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1875). “The Hanging of the Crane”, p.43

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