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• The country is lyric, the town dramatic. When mingled, they make the most perfect musical drama.

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  Country, Drama, Perfect

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.430

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• Into a world unknown,-the corner-stone of a nation!

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  World, Stones, Corners

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.91, Penguin

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• Then from the neighboring thicket the mocking-bird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water, Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music, That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen.

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  Air, Water, Bird

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.49, Penguin

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• Well I know the secret places, And the nests in hedge and tree; At what doors are friendly faces, In what hearts are thoughts of me.

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  Heart, Doors, Secret Places

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.334

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• Burn, O evening hearth, and waken Pleasant visions, as of old! Though the house by winds be shaken, Safe I keep this room of gold!

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  Wind, House, Vision

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.333

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• A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms not person than graces of mind, more admirers than friends, mole fools than wise men for attendants.

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  Wise, Men, Grace

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• To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.

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  Faces, Crime, Retribution

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.820, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Bell, thou soundest merrily, When the bridal party To the church doth hie! Bell, thou soundest solemnly, When, on Sabbath morning, Fields deserted lie!

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  Morning, Lying, Party

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1847). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Complete in One Volume”, p.30

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• A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his own insignificant person.

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  Country, Men, Long

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works: Hyperion”, p.110

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• To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgment of others.

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  Cities, Tolerance, Towns

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Prose Works”, p.95

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• Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn; We shudder for a moment, then awake In the broad sunshine of the other life.

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  Death, Sunshine, Dawn

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.106, Wildside Press LLC

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• Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts.

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  Errors, Mind, Needs

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (185?). “The Poetical Works of Henry W. Longfellow”, p.450

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• One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm For the country folk to be up and to arm.

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  Country, Land, Opposites

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.472

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• The bells themselves are the best of preachers, Their brazen lips are learned teachers, From their pulpits of stone, in the upper air, Sounding aloft, without crack or flaw, Shriller than trumpets under the Law, Now a sermon and now a prayer.

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  Teacher, Prayer, Law

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.165

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• Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.

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  Growth, May, Pleasure

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

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• Evil is only good perverted.

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  Evil, Literature, Goodness

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.370

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• A solid man of Boston; A comfortable man with dividends, And the first salmon and the first green peas.

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  Men, Boston, Salmon

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.540, Library of America

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• What else remains for me? Youth, hope and love; To build a new life on a ruined life.

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  And Love, New Life, Youth

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.821, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Truths that startled the generation in which they were first announced become in the next age the commonplaces of conversation; as the famous airs of operas which thrilled the first audiences come to be played on hand-organs in the streets.

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  Hands, Air, Age

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

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• One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.

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  Dream, Sweat, Half

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “Hyperion, and Kavanagh”, p.16

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• Peace! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies! But beautiful as songs of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise.

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  Beautiful, Song, Peace

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.100

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• God's voice was not in the earthquake, Not in the fire, nor the storm, but it was in the whispering breezes.

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  Earthquakes, Voice, Fire

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

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• Gone are the birds that were our summer guests.

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  Summer, Bird, Gone

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.852, Jazzybee Verlag

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• O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.

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  Art, Lessons, Shapes

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works”, p.217

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• Every human heart is human.

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  Inspirational, Heart, Humanity

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1860). “The Song of Hiawatha: Illustr., from Designs by George H. Thomas”, p.4

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