Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Dead he is not, but departed, for the artist never dies.

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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

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A boy's will is the wind's will, and the thought's of youth are long, long thoughhts

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Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead.

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No endeavour is in vain; Its reward is in the doing.

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Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!

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O gift of God! O perfect day: Whereon shall no man work, but play; Whereon it is enough for me, Not to be doing, but to be!

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Take this sorrow to thy heart and make it part of thee, and it shall nourish thee till thou art strong again.

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White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting Shadows of the palaces and strips of sky.

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When we walk towards the sun of Truth, all shadows are cast behind us.

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Let us then, be up and doing.

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Big words do not smite like war-clubs, Boastful breath is not a bow-string, Taunts are not so sharp as arrows, Deeds are better things than words are, Actions mightier than boastings.

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The little I have seen of the world teaches me to look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger. When I take the history of one poor heart that has sinned and suffered, and represent to myself the struggles and temptations it has passed through, the brief pulsations of joy, the feverish inquietude of hope and fear, the pressure of want, the desertion of friends, I would fain leave the erring soul of my fellow-man with Him from whose hand it came.

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Listen my children and you shall hear, Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere

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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

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He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.

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A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms not person than graces of mind, more admirers than friends, mole fools than wise men for attendants.

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All sense of hearing and of sight enfold in the serene delight and quietude of sleep.

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Bell, thou soundest merrily, When the bridal party To the church doth hie! Bell, thou soundest solemnly, When, on Sabbath morning, Fields deserted lie!

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I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star. Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady lambent light, are luminous, but not sparkling.

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