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
dream sweat may
One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.
errors mind needs
Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts.
art lessons shapes
O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.
lying mean fire
All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.
rain clouds friars
The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.
silence silent silence-is
What shall I say to you? What can I say Better than silence is?
son suffering devil
It is Lucifer, The son of mystery; And since God suffers him to be, He too, is God's minister, And labors for some good By us not understood.
death sunshine dawn
Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn; We shudder for a moment, then awake In the broad sunshine of the other life.
rain fall sleep
The moon is hidden behind a cloud... On the leaves is a sound of falling rain... No other sounds than these I hear; The hour of midnight must be near... So many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night, They have driven sleep from mine eyes away: I will go down to the chapel and pray.
mistake writing style
With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground.
holiday men hypocrisy
In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays.
nature wall idols
The natural alone is permanent. Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while; but at length they are overturned by the continual and silent progress of Truth, as the grim statues of Copan have been pushed from their pedestals by the growth of forest-trees, whose seeds were sown by the wind in the ruined walls.
faces crime retribution
To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.
cities tolerance towns
To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgment of others.