Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me.

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Shepherds at the grange, Where the Babe was born, Sang with many a change, Christmas carols until morn.

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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

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There is no flock, however watched and tended, but one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside howsoe'er defended, but has one vacant chair.

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

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Defeat may be victory in disguise.

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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

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Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon.

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It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

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Some feelings are quite untranslatable; no language has yet been found for them. They gleam upon us beautifully through the dim twilight of fancy, and yet when we bring them close to us, and hold them up to the light of reason, lose their beauty all at once, as glow worms which gleam with such a spiritual light in the shadows of evening, when brought in where the candles are lighted, are found to be only worms like so many others.

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Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.

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Autumn arrives like a warrior with the stain of blood upon his brazen mail. His crimson scarf is rent. His scarlet banner drips with gore. His step is like a flail upon the threshing floor.

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Evil is only good perverted.

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Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares!

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

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Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.

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The Mormons make the marriage ring, like the ring of Saturn, fluid, not solid, and keep it in its place by numerous satellites.

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No one is so accursed by fate, no one so utterly desolate, but some heart though unknown responds unto his own.

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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.

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