Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes - Page 17

Quotes about:

• Listen my children and you shall hear, Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Children, Midnight, My Children

  Tales of aWayside Inn pt. 1 "The Landlord's Tale: Paul Revere's Ride" st. 1 (1863)

  4 Copy quote

• The secret anniversaries of the heart.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Birthday, Time, Heart

  'The Ladder of Saint Augustine' (1850)

  7 Copy quote

• It is Lucifer, The son of mystery; And since God suffers him to be, He too, is God's minister, And labors for some good By us not understood.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Son, Suffering, Devil

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.1245, Jazzybee Verlag

  15 Copy quote

• And when she was good she was very very good. But when she was bad she was horrid.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Very Good

  Composed for, and sung to, his second daughter while a babe in arms, c.1850. B. R. Tucker-Macchetta 'The Home Life of Henry W. Longfellow' (1882) ch. 5, also E. W. Longfellow 'Random Memories' (1922) p. 15

  4 Copy quote

• O summer day beside the joyous sea!
  O summer day so wonderful and white,
  So full of gladness and so full of pain!
  Forever and forever shalt thou be
  To some the gravestone of a dead delight,
  To some the landmark of a new domain.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Summer, Pain, July

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1875). “The Masque of Pandora: And Other Poems”, p.140

  11 Copy quote

• To-day, to-morrow, every day, to thousands the end of the world is close at hand. And why should we fear it? We walk here, as it were, in the crypts of life; at times, from the great cathedral above us, we can hear the organ and the chanting choir; we see the light stream through the open door, when some friend goes up before us; and shall we fear to mount the narrow staircase of the grave that leads us out of this uncertain twilight into life eternal?

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Twilight, Doors

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.473

  6 Copy quote

• Still stands the forest primeval; but far away from its shadow, Side by side, in their nameless graves, the lovers are sleeping.Under the humble walls of the little catholic churchyard,In the heart of the city, they lie, unknown and unnoticed;Daily the tides of life go ebbing and flowing beside them,Thousands of throbbing hearts, where theirs are at rest and forever,Thousands of aching brains, where theirs no longer are busy,Thousands of toiling hands, where theirs have ceased from their labors,Thousands of weary feet, where theirs have completed their journey!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wall, Lying, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, including his translations and notes”, p.40

  5 Copy quote

• Buried was the bloody hatchet; Buried was the dreadful war-club; Buried were all warlike weapons, And the war-cry was forgotten. Then was peace among the nations.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Peace, War, Clubs

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chase Salmon Osborn, Stellanova Osborn (1944). “"Hiawatha".: with its original Indian legends, compiled, with essays on its authentic background of lake Superior country and Chippewa Indians”

  7 Copy quote

• Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Future, Heart, Iron Will

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2016, Delphi Classics

  19 Copy quote

• A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Land, History, Lamps

  "Santa Filomena" st. 10 (1858).

  10 Copy quote

• Music is the language spoken by angels.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Angel, Language, Music Is

  10 Copy quote

• 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

  Glasses, Musical, Littles

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

  5 Copy quote

• We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Names, Giving, Want

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.796, Library of America

  7 Copy quote

• Love contending with friendship, and self with each generous impulse.
  To and fro in his breast his thoughts were heaving and dashing,
  As in a foundering ship.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Self, Ships

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, including his translations and notes”, p.352

  5 Copy quote

• A great sorrow, like a mariner's quadrant, brings the sun at noon down to the horizon, and we learn where we are on the sea of life.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sea, Sorrow, Sun

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

  7 Copy quote

• The life of woman is full of woe,
  Toiling on and on and on,
  With breaking heart, and tearful eyes,
  The secret longings that arise,
  Which this world never satisfies!
  Some more, some less, but of the whole
  Not one quite happy, no, not one!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sad, Women, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.156

  17 Copy quote

• I promise myself great pleasure from my visit to England. You know I am to stay with Dickens while in London; and beside his own very agreeable society, I shall enjoy that of the most noted literary men of the day, which will be a great gratification to me.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Men, Promise, London

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1967). “The Letters of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Volume I-II: 1814-1843”, p.468, Harvard University Press

  5 Copy quote

• Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and silence.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Voice, Silence, Darkness

  Tales of aWayside Inn pt. 3 "The Theologian's Tale: Elizabeth" pt. 4 (1874)

  9 Copy quote

• Thou shalt learn
  The wisdom early to discern
  True beauty in utility.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  True Beauty, Utility

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems on Slavery, Early Poems, additional Poems, and Ballads”, p.12

  9 Copy quote

• The twilight is sad and cloudy, The wind blows wild and free, And like the wings of sea-birds Flash the white caps of the sea.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Twilight, Blow, Wind

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.131

  9 Copy quote

• How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow
  Into the arctic regions of our lives,
  Where little else than life itself survives.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Age, May, Littles

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

  7 Copy quote

• All sense of hearing and of sight enfold in the serene delight and quietude of sleep.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sleep, Sight, Delight

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1875). “The Masque of Pandora: And Other Poems”, p.44

  11 Copy quote

• And as she looked around, she saw how Death the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heart, Hands, Forever

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.124

  6 Copy quote

• Oh, what a glory doth this world put on, for him who with a fervent heart goes forth under the bright and glorious sky, and looks on duties well performed, and days well spent.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heart, Sky, Day Well Spent

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

  12 Copy quote

• Look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Errors, Sorrow, Looks

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works: Hyperion”, p.190

  6 Copy quote

Page 17 of 28

First

← Prev

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin