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
silence desire speech
Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.
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Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
sea brave secret
Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!
happiness unhappy too-much
The happy should not insist too much upon their happiness in the presence of the unhappy.
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The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, — the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature ; but without it no true Aurum Potabile, or Elixir of Life, can be made.
dream past new-life
Youth, hope, and love: To build a new life on a ruined life, To make the future fairer than the past, And make the past appear a troubled dream.
running angel night
I am the Angel of the Sun Whose flaming wheels began to run When God's almighty breath Said to the darkness and the Night, Let there be light! and there was light.
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If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning.
toil immortal
Much must he toil who serves the Immortal Gods.
old-friends welcome
Welcome, my old friend, Welcome to a foreign fireside.
book treasure tongue
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!
cities graves
Even cities have their graves!
morning compensation
Tis always morning somewhere.
stars flower golden
These stars of earth, these golden flowers.