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
inspirational life kindness
Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.
daughter mother spring
Mine is the Month of Roses; yes, and mine The Month of Marriages! All pleasant sights And scents, the fragrance of the blossoming vine, The foliage of the valleys and the heights. Mine are the longest days, the loveliest nights; The mower's scythe makes music to my ear; I am the mother of all dear delights; I am the fairest daughter of the year.
air water noise
And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters
new-year moving past
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
teamwork unions danger
All your strength is in union, all your danger is in discord.
change rain moon
Nothing that is can pause or stay; / The moon will wax, the moon will wane, / The mist and cloud will turn to rain, / The rain to mist and cloud again, / Tomorrow be today.
life dream numbers
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!
life snares quicksand
Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares!
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.
time heart holiday
The secret anniversaries of the heart.
time age may
Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
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 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 glasses church
Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry.