Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

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The sea hath its pearls The heaven hath its stars But my heart, my heart Has its love.

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I love thee, as the good love heaven.

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I love the season well When forest glades are teeming with bright forms, Nor dark and many-folded clouds foretell The coming of storms.

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Out of the shadows of night The world rolls into light.

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Art is the child of Nature; yes, Her darling child, in whom we trace The features of the mother's face, Her aspect and her attitude, All her majestic loveliness Chastened and softened and subdued Into a more attractive grace, And with a human sense imbued. He is the greatest artist, then, Whether of pencil or of pen, Who follows Nature.

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

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All sense of hearing and of sight enfold in the serene delight and quietude of sleep.

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Then from the neighboring thicket the mocking-bird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water, Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music, That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen.

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Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers.

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All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme.

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Into each life some rain must fall.

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Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!

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Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.

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In ourselves are triumph and defeat.

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My designs and labors and aspirations are my only friends.

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Buried was the bloody hatchet; Buried was the dreadful war-club; Buried were all warlike weapons, And the war-cry was forgotten. Then was peace among the nations.

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It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life.

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O holy trust! O endless sense of rest! Like the beloved John To lay his head upon the Saviour's breast, And thus to journey on!

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Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

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