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• And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters

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  Air, Water, Noise

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• The moon is hidden behind a cloud... On the leaves is a sound of falling rain... No other sounds than these I hear; The hour of midnight must be near... So many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night, They have driven sleep from mine eyes away: I will go down to the chapel and pray.

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  Fall, Rain, Sleep

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Golden Legend: Iv. The Road To Hirschau”

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• I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it. I stand in awe of my own opinion. The secret demerits of which we alone, perhaps, are conscious, are often more difficult to bear than those which have been publicly censured in us, and thus in some degree atoned for.

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  Secret, Criticism, Receiving

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1853). “Kavanagh: A Tale”, p.184

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• There is a Reaper, whose name is Death,
  And, with his sickle keen,
  He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
  And the flowers that grow between.

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  Death, Flower, Names

  "The Reaper and the Flowers" st. 1 (1839)

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• See yonder fire! It is the moon slow rising o'er the eastern hill. It glimmers on the forest tips, and through the dewy foliage drips In little rivulets of light, and makes the heart in love with night.

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  Heart, Moon, Night

  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.165

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• Time has laid his hand
  Upon my heart, gently, not smiting it,
  But as a harper lays his open palm
  Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations.

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  Time, Heart, Hands

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, including his translations and notes”, p.203

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• But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust.

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  Age, Rust, Deeds

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.102

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• It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.

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  Sea, Progress, Monsters

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Kavanagh (Annotated Edition)”, p.47, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Some poems are like the Centaurs--a mingling of man and beast, and begotten of Ixion on a cloud.

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  Men, Clouds, Centaurs

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

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• Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's civility. There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it, and to these the author has a claim. Yet many people think that when they buy a book they buy with it the right to abuse the author.

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  Book, Reading, Writing

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “Kavanagh: And Other Pieces”, p.364

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• There's not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate, every soil, Must bring its tribute, great or small, And help to build the wooden wall!

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  Wall, Ocean, Climate

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.184

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• This will be a great day in our history; the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the old one. Even now as I write they are leading old John Brown to execution in Virginia for attempting to rescue slaves! This is sowing the wind to reap the whirlwind which will come soon!

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  War, Writing, Virginia

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2428, Delphi Classics

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• I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial-ground God's-Acre! It is just; It consecrates each grave within its walls, And breathes a benison o'er the sleeping dust.

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  Wall, Sleep, Dust

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.50

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• Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

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  Running, Distance, Sea

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.729, Library of America

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• Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay?

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Lovely

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.873, Delphi Classics

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• 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!

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  Lying, Fall, Men

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.774, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of thy voice.

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  Beauty, Voice, Choices

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.108

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• The hearts of some women tremble like leaves at every breath of love which reaches them, and they are still again. Others, like the ocean, are moved only by the breath of a storm, and not so easily lulled to rest.

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  Ocean, Heart, Storm

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.147

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• Learn to labour and to wait.

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  Life, Waiting, Labour

  'A Psalm of Life' (1838).

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• Build me straight. O worthy Master! Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind wrestle!

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  Strong, Laughing, Ships

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.121, Library of America

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• There is no light in earth or heaven but the cold light of stars; and the first watch of night is given to the red planet Mars.

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  Stars, Night, Light

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.3

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• Do not delay,
  Do not delay: the golden moments fly!

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  Procrastination, Golden Moments, Delay

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.817, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history, In which we feel the pressure of a hand,-- One touch of fire,--and all the rest is mystery!

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  Heart, Fire, Hands

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

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• Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice triumphs.

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  Men, Justice, Triumph

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.70, Library of America

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• Youth, hope, and love: To build a new life on a ruined life, To make the future fairer than the past, And make the past appear a troubled dream.

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  Dream, Past, And Love

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.895, Delphi Classics

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