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
men waiting lessons
Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!
companion my-own
My own thoughts Are my companions.
wall sleep dust
I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial-ground God's-Acre! It is just; It consecrates each grave within its walls, And breathes a benison o'er the sleeping dust.
fortune late wells
Fortune comes well to all that comes not late.
fear light unbroken
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
law causes mercy
The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable.
country poet great-poet
All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.
lonely stars fall
The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone. Shadows of evening fall around us, and the world seems but a dim reflection - itself a broader shadow. We look forward into the coming lonely night. The soul withdraws into itself. Then stars arise, and the night is holy.
might three chords
To charm, to strengthen, and to teach: these are the three great chords of might.
winning air soldier
Authors must not, like Chinese soldiers, expect to win victories by turning somersets in the air.
friendship design aspiration
My designs and labors and aspirations are my only friends.
pain race earth
But ah! what once has been shall be no more! The groaning earth in travail and in pain Brings forth its races, but does not restore, And the dead nations never rise again.
symbols all-things
All things are symbols.
men giving poor
No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving.