Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
5 Famous Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems
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Paul Revere's Ride
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
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A Psalm of Life
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
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The Village Blacksmith
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Under a spreading chestnut-tree
The village smithy stands;
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The Arrow and the Song
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
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The Builders
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All are architects of Fate,
Working in these walls of Time;
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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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.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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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.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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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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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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