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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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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.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) first seen 1820 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Battle of Lovell's Pond," first published in the Portland Gazette (November 17, 1820).
“Music is the universal language of mankind — poetry their universal pastime and delight.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) first seen 1835 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Outre-Mer (1835).
“Stars of the summer night! Far in yon azure deeps, Hide, hide your golden light! She sleeps! My lady sleeps!”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) first seen 1843 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Spanish Student, Act I, sc. iii, serenade (1843).
“Dreams of the summer night! Tell her, her lover keeps Watch! while in slumbers light She sleeps.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) first seen 1843 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Spanish Student, Act I, sc. iii, serenade (1843).
“She floats upon the river of his thoughts.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) first seen 1843 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Spanish Student, Act II, sc. iii (1843).
Also quoted by: Henry W. Longfellow
“Never here, forever there, Where all parting, pain, and care, And death, and time shall disappear,— Forever there, but never here! The horologe of Eternity Sayeth this incessantly,— "Forever — never! Never — forever!”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) first seen 1845 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Old Clock on the Stairs, st. 9 (1845).
“I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where.”
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Recorded in: The Arrow and the Song, st. 1 (1845).
“And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the valley of the Pegnitz, where, across broad meadow-lands, Rise the blue Franconian mountains, Nuremburg, the ancient, stands.Quaint old town of toil and traffic, quaint old town of art and song, Memories haunt thy pointed gables, like the rooks that round them throng.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) first seen 1846 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nuremburg (1846).
“Emigravit is the inscription on the tomb-stone where he lies; Dead he is not, but departed, — for the artist never dies.”
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Recorded in: Nuremburg (1846).
“Where'er a noble deed is wrought, Where'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise To higher levels rise.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) first seen 1857 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Santa Filomena, st. 1 (1857).
“St. Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame!”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) first seen 1858 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Ladder of St. Augustine, st. 1 (1858).
“The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Henry W. Longfellow
“The trees are white with dust, that o'er their sleep Wave their broad curtains in the south-wind's breath, While underneath such leafy tents they keep The long, mysterious Exodus of Death.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) first seen 1858 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Jewish Cemetery at Newport, st. 2 (1858).
“A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) first seen 1858 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: My Lost Youth, refrain (1858), quoting Olaus Sirma
“A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) first seen 1858 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Santa Filomena, st. 10 (1858).
“Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) first seen 1858 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Children, st. 9 (1858).
“Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupation, That is known as the Children's Hour.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) first seen 1860 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Children's Hour, st. 1 (1860).
“I hear in the chamber above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet.”
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Recorded in: The Children's Hour, st. 2 (1860).
“Far off I hear the crowing of the cocks, And through the opening door that time unlocks Feel the fresh breathing of To-morrow creep.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) first seen 1866 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To-morrow", in The Atlantic Monthly, vol. 17, no. 103 (May 1866), p. 552
“Build on, and make thy castles high and fair, Rising and reaching upward to the skies; Listen to voices in the upper air, Nor lose thy simple faith in mysteries.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) first seen 1873 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Castle-builder, st. 4 (1873).
“He speaketh not; and yet there lies A conversation in his eyes.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) first seen 1874 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Hanging of the Crane (1874) p. 31
“In the long, sleepless watches of the night, A gentle face — the face of one long dead — Looks at me from the wall, where round its head The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) first seen 1879 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Cross of Snow (1879).
“Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art is of ending; Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) first seen 1879 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Elegiac Verse, st. 14 (1879).
“There was a little girl, Who had a little curl, Right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good, She was very good indeed, But when she was bad she was horrid.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) first seen 1882 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: There Was a Little Girl, reported in B. R. T. Machetta, Home Life of Longfellow (1882) p. 90
“O Bells of San Blas in vain Ye call back the Past again; The Past is deaf to your prayer! Out of the shadows of night The world rolls into light; It is daybreak everywhere.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) first seen 1882 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Bells of San Blas, st. 11 (March 15, 1882).
“He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Michael Angelo (published posthumously), in Poetical Works (Houghton Mifflin Co, 1887), p. 316
“Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Samuel Longfellow (ed.) Final Memorials (Boston: Ticknor and Co., 1887) Ch. 19: Table-Talk
“Books are sepulchres of thought.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Wind over the Chimney, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“This is the place. Stand still, my steed,— Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Gleam of Sunshine, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Also quoted by: Henry W. Longfellow
“The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Fire of Drift-wood, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Also quoted by: Henry W. Longfellow
“The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Herons of Elmwood, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Also quoted by: Henry W. Longfellow
“He has singed the beard of the king of Spain.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Dutch Picture, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Also quoted by: Henry W. Longfellow
“Look, then, into thine heart, and write!”
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Also quoted by: Henry W. Longfellow
“I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls! I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls!”
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“There is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between.”
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Also quoted by: Henry W. Longfellow
“Oh, not in cruelty, not in wrath, The Reaper came that day; 'Twas an angel visited the green earth, And took the flowers away.”
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“The star of the unconquered will.”
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Also quoted by: Henry W. Longfellow
“Oh, fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know erelong,— Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.”
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Also quoted by: Henry W. Longfellow
“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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Also quoted by: Henry W. Longfellow
“The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.”
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Also quoted by: Henry W. Longfellow
“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.”
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Also quoted by: Henry W. Longfellow
“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.”
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Also quoted by: Henry W. Longfellow
“Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each to-morrow Finds us further than to-day.”
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“Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.”
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Recorded in: St. 4. cf. Andrew Marvell, Upon the Death of Lord Hastings (1649): "Art indeed is long, but life is short".
Also quoted by: Henry W. Longfellow
“Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act, act in the living present! Heart within, and God o'erhead!”
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Also quoted by: Henry W. Longfellow
“Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time;”
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Also quoted by: Henry W. Longfellow
“Footprints, that perhaps another, Travelling o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.”
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“Let us, then, be up and doing. With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.”
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“Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers.”
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Also quoted by: Henry W. Longfellow