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• By the shore of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of his wigwam, In the pleasant Summer morning, Hiawatha stood and waited.

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  Summer, Morning, Sea

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.247

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• See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away Over the snowy peaks!

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  Clouds, Wind, Littles

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.185

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• The heaven of poetry and romance still lies around us and within us.

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  Lying, Romance, Heaven

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1866). “Kavanagh. Driftwood”, p.307

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• Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-at-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail. And crying havoc on the slug and snail.

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  Crush, Men, Crow

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The poetical works of Henry W. Longfellow, ed. with a critical memoir by W.M. Rossetti, illustr. by W. Lawson. Illustr. by E. Edwards”, p.366

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• Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour.

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  Children, Dark, Night

  "The Children's Hour" st. 1 (1859)

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• Fortune comes well to all that comes not late.

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  Fortune, Late, Wells

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.78

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• The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.

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  Rain, Clouds, Friars

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.6

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• A town that boasts inhabitants like me Can have no lack of good society.

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  Towns, Like Me, Boast

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Tales of a Wayside Inn”, p.138

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• The natural alone is permanent. Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while; but at length they are overturned by the continual and silent progress of Truth, as the grim statues of Copan have been pushed from their pedestals by the growth of forest-trees, whose seeds were sown by the wind in the ruined walls.

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  Nature, Wall, Idols

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855). “The Works: Kavanagh. Outre-Mer”, p.38

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• Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, a shadow on those features fair and thin. And softly, from the hushed and darkened room, two angels issued, where but one went in.

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  Death, Angel, Two

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Author's complete ed”, p.461

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• We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.

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  Heaven, Lamps, May

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.134

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• Look at this vigorous plant that lifts its head from the meadow, See how its leaves are turned to the north, as true as the magnet; This is the compass-flower, that the finger of God has planted Here in the houseless wild, to direct the traveller's journey. Over the sea-like, pathless, limitless waste of the desert, Such in the soul of man is faith.

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  Flower, Journey, Men

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.359, Delphi Classics

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• From labor there shall come forth rest.

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  Labor

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.104

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• The morrow was a bright September morn; The earth was beautiful as if newborn; There was nameless splendor everywhere, That wild exhilaration in the air, Which makes the passers in the city street Congratulate each other as they meet.

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  Beautiful, Air, Cities

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.371, Library of America

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• The Mormons make the marriage ring, like the ring of Saturn, fluid, not solid, and keep it in its place by numerous satellites.

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  Saturn, Satellites, Fluid

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

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• The poor too often turn away unheard, From hearts that shut against them with a sound That will be heard in heaven.

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  Heart, Heaven, Sound

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.55

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• Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine.

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  Stars, Flower, Blue

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.10

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• Books are sepulchres of thought.

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  Book

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Flower-de-luce and Three Books of Song”, p.25

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• The men that women marry, And why they marry them, will always be A marvel and a mystery to the world.

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  Marriage, Men, World

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

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• Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.

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  Strong, Fiction, Spells

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Prose Works”, p.451

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• A word that has been said may be unsaid-it is but air. But when a deed is done, it cannot be undone, nor can our thoughts reach out to all the mischiefs that may follow.

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  Hurt, Air, Done

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.565

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• Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great.

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  Strong, America, Unions

  "The Building of the Ship" l. 378 (1849)

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• O ye dead Poets, who are living still Immortal in your verse, though life be fled, And ye, O living Poets, who are dead Though ye are living, if neglect can kill, Tell me if in the darkest hours of ill, With drops of anguish falling fast and red From the sharp crown of thorns upon your head, Ye were not glad your errand to fulfill?

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  Fall, Crowns, Errands

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Favorite Poems”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• And the bright faces of my young companions
  Are wrinkled like my own, or are no more.

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  Age, Faces, Young

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.163, Jazzybee Verlag

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• All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme.

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  Wall, Fate, Deeds

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.136, Library of America

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