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
world-love world spices
The world loves a spice of wickedness.
thinking self world
Truly, this world can get on without us, if we would but think so.
prayer thinking world
What discord should we bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered! Then we should govern the world, and not God. And do you think we should govern it better?
children dark world
Ah! What would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.
night light world
Out of the shdows of night The world rolls into light.
heart reality world
Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
progress world care
Our ingress into the world Was naked and bare; Our progress through the world Is trouble and care.
marriage men world
The men that women marry, And why they marry them, will always be A marvel and a mystery to the world.
stones world nations
Into a world unknown,-the corner-stone of a nation!
sweet hate world
There's nothing in this world so sweet as love. And next to love the sweetest thing is hate.
world glorious god-within-us
Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us.
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.