Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Time has laid his hand Upon my heart, gently, not smiting it, But as a harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations.

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The low desire, the base design That makes another's virtues less.

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Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night!

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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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The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.

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So disasters come not singly; But as if they watched and waited, Scanning one another's motions, When the first descends, the others Follow, follow, gathering flock-wiseRound their victim, sick and wounded, First a shadow, then a sorrow, Till the air is dark with anguish.

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

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Our faith triumphant o'er our fears.

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Then followed that beautiful season... Summer.... Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.

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The bells themselves are the best of preachers, Their brazen lips are learned teachers, From their pulpits of stone, in the upper air, Sounding aloft, without crack or flaw, Shriller than trumpets under the Law, Now a sermon and now a prayer.

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A stiff letter galls one like a stiff shirt collar -- whilst a sheet garnished here and there with a careless blot -- and here and there a dash -- but in the main full of excellent matter, is like a clever fellow in a dirty shirt whom we value for the good humour he brings with him and not for the garb he wears.

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The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and stain from the lees of the vat.

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And as she looked around, she saw how Death the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever.

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But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust.

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Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

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Oh, how short are the days! How soon the night overtakes us!

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

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How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives.

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The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls; The little waves, with their soft, white hands, Efface the footprints in the sands, And the tide rises, the tide falls.

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These stars of earth, these golden flowers.

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