Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

The twilight is sad and cloudy, The wind blows wild and free, And like the wings of sea-birds Flash the white caps of the sea.

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The air of summer was sweeter than wine.

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Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return. Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn.

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This is the place. Stand still, my steed,- Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been.

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What child has a heart to sing in this capricious clime of ours, when spring comes sailing in from the sea, with wet and heavy cloud-sails and the misty pennon of the east-wind nailed to the mast.

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Our faith triumphant o'er our fears.

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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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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

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Love is sunshine, hate is shadow, Life is checkered shade and sunshine.

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The poor too often turn away unheard, From hearts that shut against them with a sound That will be heard in heaven.

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Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.

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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.

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Let us labor for an inward stillness-- An inward stillness and an inward healing. That perfect silence where the lips and heart Are still, and we no longer entertain Our own imperfect thoughts and vain opinions, But God alone speaks to us and we wait In singleness of heart that we may know His will, and in the silence of our spirits, That we may do His will and do that only

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The grave itself is but a covered bridge, Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness!

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How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!

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Let us, then, be what we are; speak what we think; and in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth.

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Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.

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Each new epoch in life seems an encounter. There is a tussle and a cloud of dust, and we come out of it triumphant or crest-fallen, according as we have borne ourselves.

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Winter giveth the fields, and the trees so old, their beards of icicles and snow.

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'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.

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