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
old-friends welcome
Welcome, my old friend, Welcome to a foreign fireside.
death lambs flocks
There is no flock, however watched and tended, but one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside howsoe'er defended, but has one vacant chair.
winter long cold
Oh the long and dreary Winter! Oh the cold and cruel Winter!
summer running eye
O lovely eyes of azure, Clear as the waters of a brook that run Limpid and laughing in the summer sun!
summer morning sea
By the shore of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of his wigwam, In the pleasant Summer morning, Hiawatha stood and waited.
snow midnight wrecks
Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe!
death may young
The young may die, but the old must!
eye shining decay
Gorgeous flowerets in the sunlight shining, Blossoms flaunting in the eye of day, Tremulous leaves, with soft and silver lining, Buds that open only to decay.
drinking mountain youth
Now to rivulets from the mountains Point the rods of fortune-tellers; Youth perpetual dwells in fountains, Not in flasks, and casks, and cellars.
pain vanity gains
The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!
understanding next poet
For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.
acres phrases ancient
I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls, The burial-ground God's-Acre.
nature flower fall
All things are symbols: the external shows Of Nature have their image in the mind , As flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves.
children lying love-is
Love is the root of creation; God's essence; worlds without number Lie in his bosom like children; he made them for this purpose only. Only to love and to be loved again.