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
holidays kept ourselves secret silence
The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; the secret anniversaries of the heart.
strong silence sorrow
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
silence desire speech
Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.
voice silence darkness
Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and silence.
pain echoes silence
And when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence.
names silence silent
The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.
silence solitude soul
Silence and solitude, the soul's best friends.
silence peacemaker silence-is
Silence is a great peacemaker.
silence silent silence-is
What shall I say to you? What can I say Better than silence is?
heart holiday silence
The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.
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.