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Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
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. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is no death What seems so is transition This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken. View quote
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This is the place. Stand still, my steed, Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of men, And bring them back to heaven again. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The grave is but a covered bridge Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life is real Life is earnest And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Look, then, into thine heart, and write. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The human voice is the organ of the soul. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love gives itself; it is not bought. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of studies a dull brain. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The prayer of Ajax was for light. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead. View quote
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As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him, yet she follows Useless each without the other. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together. View quote
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow