Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

There is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between.

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Let us then, be up and doing.

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History casts its shadow far into the land of song.

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Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.

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The country is not priest-ridded, but press-ridden.

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If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!

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O weary hearts! O slumbering eyes! O drooping souls, whose destinies Are fraught with fear and pain, Ye shall be loved again.

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They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again.

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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

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A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.

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Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's civility. There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it, and to these the author has a claim. Yet many people think that when they buy a book they buy with it the right to abuse the author.

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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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The Wreck of the Hesperus But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he.

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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

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Our ingress into the world Was naked and bare; Our progress through the world Is trouble and care.

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A handful of red sand from the hot clime Of Arab deserts brought, Within this glass becomes the spy of Time, The minister of Thought.

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Peace! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies! But beautiful as songs of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise.

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All things must change To something new, to something strange.

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I cannot believe any man can be perfectly well in body, who has much labor of the mind to perform.

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A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man who lives to find faults has a miserable mission.

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