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
time heart learning
Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.
love inspirational sweet
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
heart burning lamps
Our hearts are lamps for ever burning...
heart water secret
There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
wall night light
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.
beautiful morning twilight
How beautiful the silent hour, when morning and evening thus sit together, hand in hand, beneath the starless sky of midnight!
inspiring forgiveness peace
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
twilight done golden
The day is done; and slowly from the scene the stooping sun upgathers his spent shafts, and puts them back into his golden quiver!
spring autumn youth
It is autumn; not without But within me is the cold. Youth and spring are all about; It is I that have grown old.
inspirational dream illusion
Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things.
twilight blow wind
The twilight is sad and cloudy, The wind blows wild and free, And like the wings of sea-birds Flash the white caps of the sea.
dream sea legends
As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me.
beautiful summer twilight
Oh, how beautiful is the summer night, which is not night, but a sunless, yet unclouded, day, descending upon earth with dews and shadows and refreshing coolness! How beautiful the long mild twilight, which, like a silver clasp, unites today with yesterday!
patience justice waiting
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.