Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes - Page 9

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• O beautiful, awful summer day, what hast thou given, what taken away?

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Summer, Taken

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1057, Delphi Classics

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• Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a summer rain, Still keeps their graves and their remembrance green.

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  Life, Summer, Tombstone

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works”, p.607

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• How beautiful is the rain!
  After the dust and the heat,
  In the broad and fiery street,
  In the narrow lane,
  How beautiful is the rain!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Rain, Dust

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.85

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• Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start.

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  Summer, Song, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.108

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• In what a forge and what a heat were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock; 'Tis of the wave and not the rock.

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  Angel, Rocks, Anchors

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.130

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• The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces!

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  Book, Tongue, Faces

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works”, p.191

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• Every author has the whole past to contend with; all the centuries are upon him. He is compared with Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton.

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  Writing, Past, Milton

  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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• Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

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  Color, Sea, Waves Breaking

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1844). “The Spanish Student: A Play in Three Acts”, p.50

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• Ne speaketh not; and yet there lies a conversation in his eyes.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Loyalty, Lying, Eye

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Hanging Of The Crane”

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• Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing.

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  Song, Singing, Deep Emotions

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.308

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• Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Death, Dream

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 1 - 2 (1838)

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• The Devil hinders me. You know I say
  Just what I think, and nothing more nor less,
  And, when I pray, my heart is in my prayer.
  I cannot say one thing and mean another.
  If I can't pray, I will not make believe!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Mean, Thinking, Sincerity

  "Selected Poems".

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• Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.

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  Heart, Passion, Men

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• We are all architects of faith, ever living in these walls of time.

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  Wall, Architect

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• All nature ... is a respiration Of the Spirit of God, who, in breathing hereafter Will inhale it into his bosom again, So that nothing but God alone will remain.

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  Nature, Breathing, Spirit

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, including his translations and notes”, p.227

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• If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or
  burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in
  silence, what wonder and expectation there would be
  in all the hearts to behold the miraculous change.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Nature, Time, Spring

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1883). “Complete Works”

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• No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.

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  Literature, Language, Written

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• I love the season well When forest glades are teeming with bright forms, Nor dark and many-folded clouds foretell The coming of storms.

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  Dark, Clouds, Storm

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.13

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• Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

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  Fate, Destiny, Literature

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1877, Delphi Classics

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• Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.

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  Funny, Reading, Book

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.729, Library of America

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• As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me.

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  Dream, Sea, Legends

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

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• After a day of cloud and wind and rain Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again, And touching all the darksome woods with light, Smiles on the fields until they laugh and sing, Then like a ruby from the horizon's ring, Drops down into the night.

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  Rain, Sunset, Night

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1875). “The Hanging of the Crane”, p.43

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• To charm, to strengthen, and to teach: these are the three great chords of might.

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  Three, Might, Charm

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1862). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Eight Engravings on Steel”, p.181

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• Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things.

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  Inspirational, Dream, Illusion

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.18, Wildside Press LLC

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• Ah, how wonderful is the advent of the Spring!—the great annual miracle.... which no force can stay, no violence restrain, like love, that wins its way and cannot be withstood by any human power, because itself is divine power. If Spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation would there be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change!... We are like children who are astonished and delighted only by the second-hand of the clock, not by the hour-hand.

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  Children, Spring, Heart

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