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
forever mystic streams
The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled.
future heart iron-will
Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
heart fairness fairs
Fair words gladden so many a heart.
song cheer winter
Chill air and wintry winds! My ear has grown familiar with your song; I hear it in the opening year, I listen, and it cheers me long.
beauty beautiful thee
There's nothing fair nor beautiful, but takes Something from thee, that makes it beautiful.
nature keys air
I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument.
wind clouds littles
See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away Over the snowy peaks!
beautiful stars eye
I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star. Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady lambent light, are luminous, but not sparkling.
book reading writing
There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.
laying-down
Nothing with God can be accidental.
victory may defeat
Defeat may be victory in disguise.
children spring heart
Ah, how wonderful is the advent of the Spring!—the great annual miracle.... which no force can stay, no violence restrain, like love, that wins its way and cannot be withstood by any human power, because itself is divine power. If Spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation would there be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change!... We are like children who are astonished and delighted only by the second-hand of the clock, not by the hour-hand.
enthusiasm begets
Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm.
strong america unions
Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great.