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• For bells are the voice of the church; They have tones that touch and search The hearts of young and old.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heart, Church Bells, Voice

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1078, Delphi Classics

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• Taste the joy
  That springs from labor.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Spring, Joy, Taste

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1875). “The Masque of Pandora: And Other Poems”, p.35

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• Like black hulks the shadows of the great trees ride at anchor on the billowy sea of grass.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Anchors, Sea, Tree

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1932, Delphi Classics

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• Sail forth into the sea of life, O gentle, loving, trusting wife, And safe from all adversity Upon the bosom of that sea Thy comings and thy goings be! For gentleness and love and trust Prevail o'er angry wave and gust; And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Adversity, Sea, Wife

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

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• Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Feet, Vices, Saint

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.273

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• They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, Names

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.39, Delphi Classics

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• I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Nature, Clouds, Keys

  Anonymous, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “A Day With Longfellow”, Library of Alexandria

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• It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanes and roofs of villages, on woodland crests and their aerial neighborhoods of nests deserted, on the curtained window-panes of rooms where children sleep, on country lanes and harvest-fields, its mystic splendor rests.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Country, Children, Sleep

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1002, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Strong, Men, Hands

  "The Village Blacksmith" st. 1 (1839)

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• O little souls! as pure as white And crystalline as rays of light Direct from heaven, their source divine; Refracted through the mist of years, How red my setting sun appears, How lurid looks this soul of mine!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Years, White, Light

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.331

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• I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes and bypaths of literature,--in the genial Summertime.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Song, Children, Passion

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “Hyperion, a romance. Kavanagh, a tale”, p.79

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• Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Age, May

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.627, Library of America

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• An angel visited the green earth, and took a flower away.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Flower, Angel, Earth

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Voices Of The Night: The Reaper And The Flowers”

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• 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.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Song, Cheer, Winter

  William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Grenville Mellen, United States. Literary Gazette (1826). “Miscellaneous poems selected from the United States Literary Gazette”, p.113

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• Not chance of birth or place has made us friends, Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations, But the endeavor for the selfsame ends, With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Friendship, Different, Tongue

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.126

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• It was Autumn, and incessant Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves, And, like living coals, the apples Burned among the withering leaves.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Autumn, Apples, Coal

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.137

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• Let us then, be up and doing.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Intriguing

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 9 (1838)

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• Time is the life of the soul.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Soul

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• In December ring Every day the chimes; Loud the gleemen sing In the streets their merry rhymes. Let us by the fire Ever higher Sing them till the night expire!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Night, Fire, December

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.145

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• Does not all the blood within me
  Leap to meet thee, leap to meet thee,
  As the springs to meet the sunshine.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Spring, Sunshine

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.209, Library of America

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• Fair words gladden so many a heart.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heart, Fairness, Fairs

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Tales of a Wayside Inn”, p.296

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• Magnificent autumn! He comes not like a pilgrim, clad in russet weeds; not like a hermit, clad in gray; but like a warrior with the stain of blood in his brazen mail.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Weed, Autumn, Warrior

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• Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Morning, Labor Day, Tasks

  "The Village Blacksmith" st. 7 (1839)

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• 'Tis always morning somewhere, and aboveThe awakening continents, from shore to shore,Somewhere the birds are singing evermore.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Morning, Nature, Bird

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1869). “The Poetical Works”, p.537

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• We are all architects of faith, ever living in these walls of time.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wall, Architect

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