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 noble may
Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves.
simple may youth
Maiden, that read'st this simple rhyme, Enjoy thy youth, it will not stay; Enjoy the fragrance of thy prime, For oh, it is not always May!
time age may
Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
death may young
The young may die, but the old must!
heaven may vapor
We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.
age may littles
How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives.
growth may pleasure
Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.
victory may defeat
Defeat may be victory in disguise.
dream sweat may
One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.
brotherhood may love-one-another
If we love one another, nothing, in truth, can harm us, whatever mischances may happen.
arrow fell knew shot
I shot an arrow into the air,It fell to earth, I knew not where (The Arrow and the Song)
city far scattered separate snow wandered
Far asunder, on separate coasts, the Acadians landed, ... Scattered were they, like flakes of snow . . . friendless, homeless, hopeless, they wandered from city to city.
beginning dark known night pause
Between the dark and the daylight, / When the night is beginning to lower, / Comes a pause in the day's occupations, / That is known as the Children's Hour.
grand hundredth puritan singing
Singing the Hundredth Psalm, the grand old Puritan anthem.