Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

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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I am weary of your quarrels, Weary of your wars and bloodshed, Weary of your prayers for vengeance, Of your wranglings and dissensions

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Even He that died for us upon the cross, in the last hour, in the unutterable agony of death, was mindful of His mother, as if to teach us that this holy love should be our last worldly thought - the last point of earth from which the soul should take its flight for heaven.

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Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.

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Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great.

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Some must follow and some command, through all are made oclay.

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And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox.

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Build me straight. O worthy Master! Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind wrestle!

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Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

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The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart, When the full river of feeling overflows;- The happy days unclouded to their close; The sudden joys that our of darkness start As flames from ashes; swift desires that dart Like swallows singing down each wind that blows!

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Much must he toil who serves the Immortal Gods.

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People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love.

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Whatever hath been written shall remain, Nor be erased nor written o'er again; The unwritten only still belongs to thee: Take heed, and ponder well what that shall be.

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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

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Authors must not, like Chinese soldiers, expect to win victories by turning somersets in the air.

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For in the night, unseen, a single warrior, In sombre harness mailed, Dreaded of man, and surnamed the Destroyer, The rampart wall has scaled. He passed into the chamber of the sleeper, The dark and silent room, And as he entered, darker grew, and deeper, The silence and the gloom.

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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

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Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours.

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Southward with fleet of ice Sailed the corsair Death; Wild and fast blew the blast, And the east-wind was his breath.

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The things that have been and shall be no more, The things that are, and that hereafter shall be, The things that might have been, and yet were not, The fading twilight of joys departed.

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