Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Gone are the birds that were our summer guests.

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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

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

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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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Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.

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Rule by patience, Laughing Water!

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See yonder fire! It is the moon slow rising o'er the eastern hill. It glimmers on the forest tips, and through the dewy foliage drips In little rivulets of light, and makes the heart in love with night.

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The country is lyric, the town dramatic. When mingled, they make the most perfect musical drama.

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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

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The prayer of Ajax was for light.

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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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We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.

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All your strength in is your union. All your danger is in discord. Therefore be at peace henceforward, And as brothers live together.

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Nothing is or can be accidental with God.

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No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.

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

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Thus departed Hiawatha, Hiawatha the Beloved, In the glory of the sunset, In the purple mists of evening, To the regions of the home-wind, Of the Northwest-Wind, Keewaydin, To the Islands of the Blessed, To the Kingdom of Ponemah, To the Land of the Hereafter!

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No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving.

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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

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The moon is hidden behind a cloud... On the leaves is a sound of falling rain... No other sounds than these I hear; The hour of midnight must be near... So many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night, They have driven sleep from mine eyes away: I will go down to the chapel and pray.

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