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
life masculine-and-feminine perfect
Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
love dream easter
Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.
dream sea legends
As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me.
christmas sweet xmas
I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
heart healing perfect
Let us labor for an inward stillness-- An inward stillness and an inward healing. That perfect silence where the lips and heart Are still, and we no longer entertain Our own imperfect thoughts and vain opinions, But God alone speaks to us and we wait In singleness of heart that we may know His will, and in the silence of our spirits, That we may do His will and do that only
country children sleep
It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanes and roofs of villages, on woodland crests and their aerial neighborhoods of nests deserted, on the curtained window-panes of rooms where children sleep, on country lanes and harvest-fields, its mystic splendor rests.
strength brother together
All your strength in is your union. All your danger is in discord. Therefore be at peace henceforward, And as brothers live together.
love short-love giving
Love gives itself; it is not bought.
love life confused
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
beautiful summer light
Then followed that beautiful season... Summer.... Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.
inspirational motivational time
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
art heart grace
For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
voice soul organs
The human voice is the organ of the soul.
mind literature should
The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.