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
strong fiction wondrous
Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.
country men long
A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his own insignificant person.
change pauses
Nothing that is can pause or stay.
night towns citadels
Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night!
lord should sabbath
Day of the Lord, as all our days should be!
sweet hate world
There's nothing in this world so sweet as love. And next to love the sweetest thing is hate.
men dreamer shadow
I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows.
lying humanity suffering
O suffering, sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried!
thinking america progress
Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so noble a branch of literature would seem to require. Few here think of relying upon the exertion of poetic talent for a livelihood, and of making literature the profession of life. The bar or the pulpit claims the greater part of the scholar's existence, and poetry is made its pastime.
past scene form
This is the place. Stand still, my steed,- Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been.
love life wings
There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
love night dawn
The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
past looks one-tree-hill-love
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.
wall book glowing
The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.