Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellowwas an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, and was one of the five Fireside Poets...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth27 February 1807
CityPortland, ME
CountryUnited States of America
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow quotes about
noble heroic type
A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood.
ballads said
Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.
learning degrees kind
But the great Master said, "I see No best in kind, but in degree; I gave a various gift to each, To charm, to strengthen, and to teach".
time men thinking
Think not because no man sees, such things will remain unseen.
very-good
And when she was good she was very very good. But when she was bad she was horrid.
time heart hands
Time has laid his hand Upon my heart, gently, not smiting it, But as a harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations.
time glasses church
Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry.
time glasses spy
A handful of red sand from the hot clime Of Arab deserts brought, Within this glass becomes the spy of Time, The minister of Thought.
time spring angel
Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest!
time age may
Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
time heart holiday
The secret anniversaries of the heart.
time twilight sunset
I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.
future heart iron-will
Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
wrecks noble immortality
And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.