Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes - Page 22

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• To-morrow! the mysterious, unknown guest,
  Who cries to me: "Remember Barmecide,
  And tremble to be happy with the rest."
  And I make answer: "I am satisfied;
  I dare not ask; I know not what is best;
  God hath already said what shall betide.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Answers, Guests, Tomorrow

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.338

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• The air is full of farewells to the dying. And mournings for the dead.

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  Farewell, Air, Mourning

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.133

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• White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting Shadows of the palaces and strips of sky.

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  Swans, Sky, Cities

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1912). “The complete poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.1218, Library of Alexandria

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• Ah, the souls of those that die Are but sunbeams lifted higher.

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  Soul, Sunbeams, Higher

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.175

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• Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood.

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  Life, Color, Childhood

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.454

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• The smoking flax before it burst to flame Was quenched by death, and broken the bruised reed.

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  Flames, Broken, Smoking

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.844, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Our ingress into the world Was naked and bare; Our progress through the world Is trouble and care.

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  Progress, Naked, World

  1872 Tales of aWayside Inn, pt.2,'The Student's Tale: The Cobbler of Hagenau'.

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• There's nothing fair nor beautiful, but takes Something from thee, that makes it beautiful.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Thee

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1869). “The Poetical Works”, p.101

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• Be thy sleep
  Silent as night is, and as deep.

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  Sleep, Night, Silent

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.162

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• Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!

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  Rivers, Feet, Childhood

  'Michael Angelo' (1883) pt. 1, sect. 5

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• O flower-de-luce, bloom on, and let the river Linger to kiss thy feet! O flower of song, bloom on, and make forever The world more fair and sweet.

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  Song, Sweet, Flower

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Flower-de-luce and Three Books of Song...”, p.10

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• The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

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  Literature, Mercy, Firmness

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1324, Delphi Classics

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• Thinking the deed, and not the creed, Would help us in our utmost need.

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  Thinking, Religion, Gardening

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.360, Library of America

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• All things come round to him who will but wait.

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  Patience, Waiting, All Things

  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

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• Balder the Beautiful
  Is dead, is dead!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1862). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Eight Engravings on Steel”, p.179

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• The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon its wheels, the pendulum no longer swings, the hands no longer move the clock stands still.

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  Time, Moving, Men

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

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• Every dew-drop and rain-drop had a whole heaven within it.

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  Stars, Rain, Clouds

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “Hyperion, and Kavanagh”, p.163

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• Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead.

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  Life, Temptation, Safe

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works”, p.210

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• Under the 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. . . . He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. . . . Toiling,-rejoicing,-sorrowing, Onward through life he goes; Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose.

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  Life, Strong, Morning

  "The Village Blacksmith" st. 7 (1839)

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• Stars of earth, these golden flowers; emblems of our own great resurrection; emblems of the bright and better land.

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  Stars, Flower, Land

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Horace Elisha Scudder (1922). “The Complete Poetical Works of Longfellow”

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• Among the noblest in the land - Though man may count himself the least - That man I honor and revere, Who without favor, without fear, In the great city dares to stand, The friend of every friendless beast.

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  Men, Vegetarianism, Land

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.665, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

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  Army, Challenges, Criticism

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

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• Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

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  Life, Art, Long

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 4 (1838)

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• No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.

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  Sweet, Nature, Tears

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1869). “The Poetical Works”, p.19

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• I love thee, as the good love heaven.

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  Life, Good Love, Heaven

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1858). “The Poetical Works”, p.148

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