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
heaven evening sandals
Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon.
twilight land romance
The twilight that surrounds the border-land of old romance.
war battle done
Let him not boast who puts his armor on as he who puts it off, the battle done.
writing biographies
A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.
angel anchors rocks
In what a forge and what a heat were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock; 'Tis of the wave and not the rock.
world-love world spices
The world loves a spice of wickedness.
flower humans
How like they are to human things!
stars flower golden
These stars of earth, these golden flowers.
pain echoes silence
And when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence.
literature language written
No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.
sea brave secret
Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!
beauty voice choices
Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of thy voice.
lying fall men
There in seclusion and remote from men The wizard hand lies cold, Which at its topmost speed let fall the pen, And left the tale half told. Ah! who shall lift that wand of magic power, And the lost clew regain? The unfinished window in Aladdin's tower Unfinished must remain!
night optimism dawn
But the nearer the dawn the darker the night, And by going wrong all things come right. Things have been mended that were worse, and the the worse, the nearer they are to mend.