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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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• Thus, seamed with many scars Bursting these prison bars, Up to its native stars My soul ascended! There from the flowing bowl Deep drinks the warrior's soul, Skoal! to the Northland! skoal! Thus the tale ended.

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  Stars, Warrior, Soul

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1847). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Complete in One Volume”, p.38

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If the great Captain of Plymouth is so very eager to wed me, Why does he not come himself, and take the trouble to woo me? If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!

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  Winning, Doe, Plymouth

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Favorite Poems”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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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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• 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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• The warriors that fought for their country, and bled, Have sunk to their rest; the damp earth is their bed; No stone tells the place where their ashes repose, Nor points out the spot from the graves of their foes. They died in their glory, surrounded by fame, And Victory's loud trump their death did proclaim; They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.

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  Country, Warrior, Names

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

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• No action, whether foul or fair, Is ever done, but it leaves somewhere A record, written by fingers ghostly, As a blessing or a curse, and mostly In the greater weakness or greater strength Of the acts which follow it.

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  Blessing, Weakness, Done

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.160

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• The natural alone is permanent.

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  Nature, Natural, Permanent

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “Kavanagh: A Tale”, p.59

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• As the heart is, so is love to the heart. It partakes of its strength or weakness, its health or disease.

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  Heart, Weakness, Disease

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855). “The Works: Kavanagh. Outre-Mer”, p.82

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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 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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• 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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• Authors must not, like Chinese soldiers, expect to win victories by turning somersets in the air.

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  Winning, Air, Soldier

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2078, Delphi Classics

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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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• Where, twisted round the barren oak,
  The summer vine in beauty clung,
  And summer winds the stillness broke,
  The crystal icicle is hung.

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  Summer, Winter, Wind

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.8

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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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