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
dark assumption assuming
But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise.
stars science air
Torrent of light and river of air, Along whose bed the glimmering stars are seen, Like gold and silver sands in some ravine Where mountain streams have left their channels bare!
art architecture architect
Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.
men justice unjust
Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice triumphs.
love spring rain
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted; If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
song sadness heart
God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of men, And bring them back to heaven again.
rain heaven dew
Every dew-drop and rain-drop had a whole heaven within it.
memorial funeral heaven
What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps.
heart heartbeat sermons
A sermon is no sermon in which I cannot hear the heartbeat.
success waiting excellence
Success is not something to wait for, it is something to work for.
prayer light ajax
The prayer of Ajax was for light.
men thinking sea
No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving; as well might the mountain streamlets say they have nothing to give the sea because they are not rivers. Give what you have. To someone it may be better than you dare to think.
heart eye men
How wonderful is the human voice! It is indeed the organ of the soul. The intellect of man is enthroned visibly on his forehead and in his eye, and the heart of man is written on his countenance, but the soul, the soul reveals itself in the voice only.
winter snow tree
Winter giveth the fields, and the trees so old, their beards of icicles and snow.