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  • There are things of which I may not speak; There are dreams that cannot die; There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak, And bring a pallor into the cheek, And a mist before the eye.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.339, Library of America
  • All things come round to him who will but wait.

    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
  • Art is the child of Nature.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.645, Library of America
  • If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.19
  • The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1076, Delphi Classics
  • The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.93, Wildside Press LLC
  • 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.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.322, Penguin
  • 'Tis always morning somewhere, and aboveThe awakening continents, from shore to shore,Somewhere the birds are singing evermore.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1869). “The Poetical Works”, p.537
  • Many people do not allow their principles to take root, but pull them up every now and then, as children do the flowers they have planted, to see if they are growing.

  • Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

    "A Psalm of Life" st. 6 (1838)
  • In the long, sleepless watches of the night, A gentle face the face of one long dead Looks at me from the wall, where round its head The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light.

    Light  
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2399, Delphi Classics
  • The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

    'The Ladder of Saint Augustine' (1850)
  • We waste our best years in distilling the sweetest flowers of life into potions which, after all, do not immortalize, but only intoxicate.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.150
  • From labor there shall come forth rest.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.104
  • There in seclusion and remote from men The wizard hand lies cold, Which at its topmost speed let fall the pen, And left the tale half told. Ah! who shall lift that wand of magic power, And the lost clew regain? The unfinished window in Aladdin's tower Unfinished must remain!

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.774, Jazzybee Verlag
  • The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.6
  • Chill air and wintry winds! My ear has grown familiar with your song; I hear it in the opening year, I listen, and it cheers me long.

    William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Grenville Mellen, United States. Literary Gazette (1826). “Miscellaneous poems selected from the United States Literary Gazette”, p.113
  • The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.627, Library of America
  • Who dares To say that he alone has found the truth?

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1868). “The New England Tragedies”, p.39, London, G. Routledge and sons
  • Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands.

    "The Village Blacksmith" st. 1 (1839)
  • God's voice was not in the earthquake, Not in the fire, nor the storm, but it was in the whispering breezes.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.34
  • 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.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.930, Delphi Classics
  • Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so noble a branch of literature would seem to require. Few here think of relying upon the exertion of poetic talent for a livelihood, and of making literature the profession of life. The bar or the pulpit claims the greater part of the scholar's existence, and poetry is made its pastime.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.794, Library of America
  • More and more do I feel, as I advance in life, how little we really know of each other. Friendship seems to me like the touch of musical-glasses--it is only contact; but the glasses themselves, and their contents, remain quite distinct and unmingled.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”
  • Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “Outre Mer. Driftwood”
  • Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great.

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

    Death  
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Author's complete ed”, p.461
  • The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.

  • Life is the gift of God, and is divine.

    Life  
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.807, Delphi Classics
  • Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

    Life  
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1061, Delphi Classics
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